Russia and Ukraine presented offensives simultaneously in the offensive in western Ukraine on Sunday. It is imaginable that one aspect knew that the attack on the other came and aimed to spoil it with a quick counterattack, but it is difficult to say if Russia or Ukraine was the main engine.
In any event, both offensives appear to have achieved marginal results, at best. And both cost the attacker dearly.
Attacking has always been harder than defending. It’s more true than ever as drones have proliferated, creating what some analysts have described as a “transparent” battlefield where no one moves without being spotted—and where explosive drones are an omnipresent threat.
On Sunday, a Russian force led the 34th Motor Rifle Brigade or the 155th Naval Infantry Brigade attacked in six waves by a total of 50 tanks, the anti-infantry fighting cars and what Ukraine’s 47th Mechanized Brigade described as “mistakes. “
Shooting in the sunlight in snowy fields, the Russians were attacked via drones, missiles and artillery belonging to the 47th Mechanized Brigade and adjacent sets. “All the sets of the 47th Brigadearray . . . They acted as a single mechanism, and they hit the enemy hardwood,” the unit reported.
Ukrainian drones have observed some Russians becoming complex with a key trench anchoring Ukrainian positions east of Leonidovo in the no-man’s-landes along the 250-square-mile Ukrainian troops occupy in Kursk. But no mainstream analyst has moved this position in the “contested” category, so it is not transparent whether the Russians consolidated their gains.
Across the wider front around Leonidovo, the rest of the Russian force suffered badly at the hands of the 47th Mechanized Brigade, a heavy user of Ukraine’s American-made cars. The brigade said it killed forty-five Russians and injured 53, an overall loss of “practically a business. “
A Ukrainian force, from the 80A Air attack brigade or some other air unit, has not behaved a few kilometers to the east. Attacted on Sunday in armored American production trucks and Stryker rolled fighting vehicles, Ukrainian paratrooides aimed at being successful in the town of Berdin in the domain played along the northern border of Kursk.
The Russians defended Berdin with explosive drones controlled remotely through long coils of fiber-optic cable. Operating without a radio, those drones get stuck through traditional meals. The drones took out several strykers and hunted down the Ukrainians they controlled to succeed in Berdin.
Four days later, it is transparent whether Ukrainians stay in Berdin. There is evidence that Russians are walking through the village amid the scattered Utterinian dead.
“It does not appear that Ukrainian forces were able to take Berdin or any other villages, and it is unclear if they were able to expand their territorial control in Kursk,” noted Rob Lee, an analyst with the Foreign Policy Research Institute in Philadelphia.
It seems simultaneous offensives simultaneously ended in bloody disaster—for the attacker.
Sources:
1. Mechanized Brigade
2. Ukraine Control Map
3. Rob Lee
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