Russia and Ukraine simultaneously introduced separate offensives into Ukraine’s western offensive on Sunday. It’s conceivable that one aspect knew the other’s attack would come and was aimed at spoiling it with a quick counterattack, but it’s hard to say whether Russia or Ukraine was the main driver.
In any case, the two offensives have received marginal results, at best. And load the attacker.
Attacking has been more complicated than defending. This is truer than ever because drones have proliferated, creating what some analysts have described as a “transparent” battlefield where no one moves unseen, and where explosive drones are a pervasive threat.
On Sunday, a Russian force led through the 34th Motor Rifle Brigade or the 155th Naval Infantry Brigade attacked in six waves by a total of 50 tanks, the infantry that fights against cars and what the 47 Mechanized Brigade of Ukraine described like “bullets”.
Rolling in broad daylight over snow-covered fields, the Russians immediately came under attack by drones, missiles and artillery belonging to the 47th Mechanized Brigade and adjacent units. “All units of the 47th Brigade … acted as one mechanism—and gave the enemy a hard time,” the unit reported.
The Ukrainian drones have observed that some Russians are complex with a key trench that anchors the Ukrainian positions east of Leonido in the nobody’s Landes along the 250 square miles, the Ukrainian troops occupy in Kursk. But no main analyst has moved this position in the “disputed” category, so it is not transparent if the Russians consolidated their profits.
Across the wider front around Leonidovo, the rest of the Russian force suffered badly at the hands of the 47th Mechanized Brigade, a main user of Ukraine’s American-made armored vehicles. The brigade reported killing 45 Russians and wounding 53, a total loss of “practically a company.”
A Ukrainian force, from the 80th Air Assault Brigade or some other air unit, fared no larger a few miles to the east. Striking Sunday in U. S. -made armored trucks and coiled Stryker fighting vehicles, Ukrainian paratroopers destined to succeed in the village village of Berdin in the disputed domain along the northern edge of the Kursk.
The Russians defended Berdin with remote controlled explosive drones through long fiber optic cable coils. When operating without radio, those drones are stuck through traditional foods. The drones eliminated several Strykers and hunt the Ukrainians who controlled to succeed in Berdin.
Four days later, it is transparent if the Ukrainians remain in Berdin. There are evidence of Russians who walk in the town in the midst of the dispersed Ukrainian 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 turns out that the simultaneous offensives were simultaneous in a bloody disaster, for the attacker.
Sources:
1. Mechanized Brigade
2. Ukraine Control Map
3. Rob Lee
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