Battlefield Update - 2023-06-09 (1)

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🇷🇺🇺🇦 Counter Offensive has started, Meanwhile, Warrior DV channel posted high-resolution footage of the defeated column of the Armed Forces of Ukraine advancing from Malaya Tokmachka towards the Rabotino-Verbove line. We determined its location yesterday.

The video clearly shows the defeat of Leopard 2 tanks. We previously assumed that the Ukrainian formations used vehicles in the A4 modification in the attack, but the new footage shows the use of a more modern version of the A6. One of them was reliably destroyed and completely burned down.

However, six abandoned M2A2 ODS Bradley infantry fighting vehicles, delivered from the USA in the spring, were immediately remarkable. This is the first objectively confirmed case of the destruction of vehicles of this type by Russian troops.

❗️ Judging by the video, in total, Ukrainian formations lost 22 pieces of equipment. Among them are Leopard 2 tanks, Bradley infantry fighting vehicles, VAB and M113 armored personnel carriers, ARVs and other samples, the type of which is difficult to establish due to their complete combustion.

At least some of the targets, including the American Bradleys, were destroyed by Ka-52 army aviation helicopters, which was confirmed by objective monitoring footage. In our opinion, this is the best response to the excessive irony about the "harvester hunters" a few days earlier.

As colleagues absolutely rightly noted, it is too early to rest on our laurels. In the coming days, the Armed Forces of Ukraine will attempt new, more powerful strikes, including in other directions.

However, the video clearly demonstrates that the enemy, even with the most modern Western equipment, can and should be smashed. And let these competent actions be an example to all Russian servicemen in all strategic directions.

#Zaporozhye #Orekhov #Russia #Ukraine

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🇷🇺🇺🇦 Orekhovsky area

situation as of 13.00 June 9, 2023

🔻For more than a day now, intense battles have been going on at the Rabotino-Verbove line. Assault groups of the 65th brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine have been trying to break through the defenses of the 291st regiment of the RF Armed Forces since late at night.

Ukrainian formations concentrated their efforts specifically on one area, sending reserves and manpower to capture one strong point.

Because of this, the fighters of the RF Armed Forces retreated to reserve positions. However, after that, artillery and aviation worked out against the enemy, who was trying to gain a foothold on the lines taken. As a result, the AFU retreated with heavy losses.

🔻Toward morning, the enemy resumed attacks on Rabotino with the forces of 65 Smbre. At the same time, an armored group of 47 Smbr on Leopard 2A4 tanks and Bradley infantry fighting vehicles began an assault on strongholds between Rabotino and Verbov.

The strike group of the 65th brigade was able to squeeze out the Russian units from the first position: at the moment, artillery is actively working on the Ukrainian formation. To the right, the servicemen of the RF Armed Forces destroyed one Leopard tank and three Bradley tanks, knocking out the forces of the 47th Smbre to the starting lines.

🔻At the Kamensky Armed Forces of Ukraine, they tried to dig in the village of Lobkove, pulling armored vehicles there. The reconnaissance groups of the RF Armed Forces discovered the accumulation of the enemy and called for fire on him. As a result, the 2nd company of the 128th Guards Rifle Brigade retreated, and Lobkovoe itself again found itself in the “gray zone”.

In total, according to preliminary estimates, in a few days of fighting in the Zaporozhye direction, the Russian army destroyed 45 tanks and 42 other armored vehicles of the enemy.

#digest #map #Zaporozhye #Russia #Ukraine #Orekhov

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❗️🇷🇺🇺🇦 Highlights of Russian Military Operation in Ukraine on June 8

▪️Ukrainian troops attempted a missile shelling on Belgorod. Two air targets were intercepted by air defense crews.

As a result of the detonation, the glazing of residential buildings and power lines were damaged.

▪️The AFU continue to conduct regular shelling of the border settlements of the Belgorod region.

As a result of the strike on the villages of Vyazovoe and Staroselie, one person was injured.

▪️The Kyiv regime once again launched a strike with Storm Shadow cruise missiles in the capital of the Luhansk People's Republic.

In total, there were several explosions in the city. The target of the strike was the territory of a diesel locomotive plant.

▪️To the north and south of Bakhmut, the AFU launched another series of attacks in the area of the Berkhivske reservoir and Klishchiivka.

All attempts to break into the Russian defenses ended unsuccessfully, but the situation in the area remains quite tense.

▪️The difficult situation persists in the Zaporizhzhia direction, where during the day the AFU launched another series of breakneck attacks in the Orikhiv area.

Russian troops honorably repelled the strike, preventing the enemy from achieving any serious success.

▪️In the Kherson region, a humanitarian catastrophe continues, caused by the destruction of the dam of the Kakhovka hydroelectric power plant.

More than fourteen thousand residential buildings were in the flood zone, more than four thousand people have already been evacuated.

▪️The most critical situation is developing in Oleshky and Hola Prystan, where the water level has not yet subsided.

At the same time, Ukrainian units are shelling evacuation points, at one of which two people died, including a pregnant woman.

#digest #Russia #Ukraine #video

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🇺🇦⚔️🇷🇺 Enemy offensive on the Zaporozhye front: the Russian army is fighting with armored groups of the Armed Forces of Ukraine near Kamensky-Lobkove

128 Mountain Assault Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine has been conducting offensive operations since June 7 using NATO armored vehicles on the Orekhovsky sector of the front in the direction of Lobkovoe and Zherebyanka (this is on the map to the left of the main offensive sector of the enemy on Rabotino).

Lobkove is located in the gray zone, the enemy suffered significant losses here, at first it was thrown back, but later it was able to advance with battles along the "no man's land", approaching the outskirts of an abandoned village in the Vasilyevsky district.

The enemy began to dig in on the southern outskirts, trying to gain a foothold, with the help of strong point equipment.

The Russian army counterattacks inflict fire damage and airstrikes.

Under n.p. Lobkovoe discovered a group of infantry fighting vehicles and up to 20 militants who were evacuating battered personnel.

Under Zherebyanka, several enemy groups (infantry fighting vehicles and infantry) were destroyed, trying to advance in the gray zone to improve the tactical situation.

Also, our reconnaissance and artillerymen destroy howitzers supporting the enemy, MLRS, and armored vehicles.

To the north of Kamensky, the positions of the MLRS of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were opened and suppressed.

For 2 days, the enemy suffered significant losses in armored vehicles and personnel but introduces new forces into the battle.

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Ukrainian offensive in Zaporizhzhya stuck - whether it was a simulation of violent activity or just a red herring

Yesterday the enemy attacked the fortifications of the Russian army on the Orekhov sector of the front, and again unsuccessfully. But the Armed Forces of Ukraine did not back down and tried to carry out an attack at night with the support of a significant number of tanks. And this attack also failed.

The enemy lost dozens of armored vehicles. Despite receiving a lot of mine-clearing equipment from the Western allies, the Armed Forces of Ukraine were never able to overcome the Russian barriers without heavy losses.

By the way, in some sectors of the front, the enemy used cannibalistic tactics, as if taken from German tales of the Second World War: armored cars went to their deaths to “clear” the way for tanks through minefields. The result is natural - dozens of crumpled mraps and a still-existing minefield, on which tanks are blown up.

But do the Ukrainian failures of recent days mean that we have repulsed the enemy counteroffensive?

Unfortunately no. The enemy still has brigades equipped with Western equipment in reserve, and his aviation does not take active actions. In addition, so far the enemy is operating with forces up to a battalion and is not committing reserves to battle.

This could mean several potential scenarios at once.

First, the enemy can still conduct reconnaissance in force and look for weaknesses in our defenses. Yes, the process was delayed, but this can also happen.

Secondly, this can be a diversionary maneuver, and the main blow should be expected somewhere else, for example, in the Bakhmut (Artemovsk) area, where the Armed Forces of Ukraine have local successes.

And thirdly, it cannot be ruled out that Kiev is only imitating violent activity and in reality is not ready for an offensive. The destruction of the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station and the ensuing hysteria fit this version perfectly.

But hope for the best and prepare for the worst. The key task of the RF Armed Forces now is to reveal the direction of the main attack and repulse it. So far, the Russian army is doing well. May God grant that this continues in the future.

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Elementary military theory, shown here:

On the left is what many think a defensive line looks like: One unbroken line manned by forces ready for assault.

On the right is how an actual defensive line (more accurately, the contact line) appears. The space in between these two lines is known as the “grey zone, controlled zone, no man’s land” and other terms. This is the space where the forces meet in combat.

What you’re looking at is vanguard forces on the line of contact and active reserves behind them.

On offense, one is not actually attacking a point of the vanguard, but a point which they feel the reserves can not respond to. One can also attack such a point to divert the reserves over, then attack another point once the reserves are distracted.

This is military theory 101. The theory revolves around where these reserves are committed to and where they are positioned. One must assault a point knowing full well that any reserve unit nearby may or may not be deployed to enforce that position – and when you potentially breach that position, the reserves may then meet you behind the line.

Combat operations revolve around destroying reserve units, either by direct engagement (committing ones reserves until they commit theirs) or by diverting them and punching through elsewhere.

This is not what Ukraine is doing. Ukraine is attacking in multiple directions (seemingly near random) and being repelled. That is, they are not drawing Russian reserves into a particular point (by which another point would be made vulnerable), but simply bouncing off, reforming, and assaulting only to bounce off again.

As I write this, they may have finally committed to the Rabotino point. By basic logic, active reserves may currently be drawn into this point of attack now – but the problem remains: if you lose the vanguard in the offensive and then commit your reserves, then what are you going to conduct operations with behind the line if your reserves are now your vanguard?

-Gleb Georgevich Gerasimov

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In total, during the failed attack on the Zaporozhye direction, the APU lost at least:

— 5 German Leopard 2A6 and 2A4 tanks (2 destroyed, 1 shot down and abandoned, 3 abandoned)

— 6 American M2A2 Bradley ODS-SA infantry fighting vehicles (all shot down and abandoned)

— 3 American MRAP M1224 MaxxPro (all shot down and abandoned)

— 1 Dutch YPR-765 armored personnel carrier (shot down and abandoned)

— 1 Czech T-72M1 (destroyed)

— 1 BMR-2 mine clearance vehicle (hit and abandoned)

— 1 French VAB armored car (hit and abandoned).

— several burnt-out trucks

For the first time, Leopard 2 tanks and M2A2 Bradley infantry fighting vehicles were destroyed.

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