The Ukrainian forces who participated in Russia’s surprise invasion last year knew that they were about to release an attack by Atordero until the day before the mission, said a commander in business inside.
Oleksii Vovkotrub The commander of the first squad, which is the component of the first corporate attack of the 33rd different attack regiment, when his unit entered the Russian Kursk region on August 6. He revealed new main points of the operation in a recent interview with BI. .
The bold invasion, which surprised Ukraine’s partners and surprised Moscow offset, marked the greatest attack against the Russian soil through a foreign enemy since World War II.
Vovkotrub, whose sign of appeal is Wolf, said the operation was classified. The forces of Ukraine gathered in the northeast region of Sumy, which limits with Russia, but did not know the ultimate goal of their accumulation at that time. Until then, the war had been carried out almost completely in Ukraine, some cross -border incursions.
“The main points of the project were not revealed to us the day before the deployment,” said Vovkotrub, now the interim commander of the first attack corporate of the 33rd regiment of different attack, he recalled. “Of course, the boys were a little nervous, but in general, the environment,” he said. “We were impatient for hitting the enemy in their own territory. “
Vovkotrub said his project to Kursk capture to capture and maintain a strong point of the platoon until the infantry infantry soldiers arrived to guarantee the position. Its unit of the unit in Russia as a component of a armored education supported through German production infantry cars and T-72 tanks of the Soviet era.
“Rodar in armor felt good,” said Vovkotrub. “I will hide this, especially after everything they did in our land. ” At this level of war, Ukrainians have been fighting their country’s invasion through Russia for approximately two years and a partial.
Ukrainian infantry men said they can gently violate the borders of Russia, the Assembly little or no resistance until they succeed on the outskirts of Sudzha.
It was only the moment in the morning of Kursk’s invasion that the squad is committed for the first time in combat, seeking to capture the strong objective point. The Ukrainians faced Russian infantry soldiers while cleaning two villages in the Southzha district, a few kilometers from the border, and fighting for safe enemy positions in the trees lines.
“In the end, the project ended effectively without any loss on our side,” said Vovkotrub. His unit stayed in Kursk until the end of August, they spread later.
The Ukrainian forces temporarily confiscated about 500 miles of territory in Kursk and captured dozens of villages the first weeks of the invasion, which was aimed .
Russian counter-fensives in the months that have noticed that the country goes back to part of the land that, first, lost in Kursk, but Ukraine still has one foot in the region. It is complicated for Russians to dislodge them completely.
Moscow was based on the deployment of thousands of North Korean forces to those efforts, but have suffered great losses of struggle. The Ukraine army recently revealed that the North Koreans had not noticed for weeks, suggesting that they would have been retired.
It is still hard in this sector. Oleksandr Syrskyi, commander -in -principal of Ukraine, said Monday that Kursk’s operation is still a key precedence for kyiv.
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