A clutch of Russian officers reportedly gathered for a hasty meeting along a road near Tokmak just 15 miles south of the front line in Russian-occupied southern Ukraine on Friday. What should have been a quick conference between commanders turned into a bloodbath when Ukrainian intelligence detected the gathering—and a High-Mobility Artillery Rocket System opened fire.
According to the General Directorate of Intelligence of Ukraine, five cars burned and three Russian captains died: one from the intelligence corps, one from the air defense and one from the infantry. It’s the moment HIMARS strikes in 3 days against Russian officials near the front line of Russia’s 34-month war against Ukraine.
A Christmas Day bombing of a headquarters in the town of Lgov, near the Ukrainian-held salient in western Russia’s Kursk Oblast, likely would have killed or wounded leaders of the 810th Brigade. Russian naval infantry. “This fiery impression is part of the crusade to weaken the functions of the enemy army,” boasted the Ukrainian Center for Strategic Communications.
It makes sense that the American-made HIMARS, which fires precision-guided rockets up to 57 miles, would target the 810th Naval Infantry Brigade. This unit has been at the forefront of Russia’s costly counteroffensive against the 250-square-mile Ukrainian salient. in Kursk.
It is less obvious why the Ukrainians would assign one of their valuable HIMARS to blow up a trio of captains in southern Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia Oblast, a remote location now that the fighting has shifted east and north.
It is conceivable that Ukrainian planners are trying to prevent the Russians from staging an offensive in Zaporizhzhia that, while unlikely to conquer much ground given the lack of Russian forces in the south, could force the Ukrainian General Staff to divert its scarce resources. from the east and from the north.
Note the pattern of Ukrainian raids in the south. In addition to striking that meeting of captains, the Ukrainian intelligence directorate and special operations command may have sent saboteurs to blow up a critical railroad through Tokmak on Dec. 15, reportedly destroying a fuel train in the process and disrupting Russian logistics in the area.
By attacking critical command and logistics infrastructure, Ukrainian forces can defeat a conceivable offensive through Russian forces in the south before it even begins. With intelligent intelligence, it is much less difficult to save an attack with a few precision moves than to avoid it. Take it on soldier by soldier, tank by tank on the battlefield.
Sources:
1. Main Intelligence Directorate of Ukraine
2. Ukrainian Center for Strategic Communications
3. War vehicle tracking
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