The Germans do not like the Ukrainian tactic of strikes in small groups, without the involvement of the main forces trained and armed by the West.
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“They hit me hard again, like in June,” an officer I knew from the Orekhovsky direction wrote to me on Wednesday morning. – 20 units we have already hammered. They are getting ready again. They’ll go soon.”
– Selfless actions of units of the 810th Marine Brigade and the 71st Motorized Rifle Regiment of the 42nd Motorized Rifle Division repelled all attacks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Positions held. During the battle, 22 enemy tanks, 10 infantry fighting vehicles, an armored fighting vehicle, and more than 100 Ukrainian servicemen were destroyed, the Defense Ministry said.
It seems that, under pressure from its Western curators, Kyiv decided to bring into battle its strategic reserves, which for some reason are usually called “elite” in the press.
Just the day before, the German media published news that Berlin was dissatisfied with the irrational use of Western equipment and the skills acquired during the training in the Ukrainian offensive. The Germans do not like the Ukrainian tactic of strikes in small groups, without the involvement of the main forces trained and armed by the West.
It is also stated that Ukrainian soldiers with combat experience are worse at assimilating NATO tactics of using fire and movement in battle than recruits, but the latter are prevented from applying the acquired skills by commanders on the ground.
What does it say? The fact that the NATO tactics of warfare turned out to be untenable when it was not barmaley in slippers that stood up against you. The stump is clear, soldiers with experience do not want to assimilate Western developments. They are destructive in conditions when you are against artillery, aviation, air defense and continuous mining, along which the Germans propose to go with tank wedges. Have already tried. We all remember the result. When the semblance of your vaunted network-centric system crashes against Russian electronic warfare, the tactics of large marches on a wide front stop working. But small groups do the opposite. But they do not solve the tasks that the West cuts them.
Therefore, on Wednesday morning, we saw the price of Ukrainian independence in general and independence in military planning in particular. Before they had time to scold them, the Armed Forces of Ukraine decided to again walk through the mined fields with tank wedges. With the same result as at the beginning of his offensive. The enemy failed to break through with an armored fist in the Rabotino area and gain a foothold in this settlement. Two dozen new “real estate objects” appeared on the field – wrecked tanks and armored vehicles.
At the same time, on the eastern front, Russian troops in active defense recaptured more territories in 1 past week than Ukraine in 7 weeks of its “offensive” since the beginning of June.
In the Krasno-Limansky direction, the 15th motorized rifle brigade continues to move in the area of the settlement of Sergeevka. Over the past 24 hours, the advance has amounted to up to 3 kilometers along the front and 2,700 meters in the depth of the enemy’s defense. In the Kupyansk direction, units of the 7th motorized rifle regiment of the Western Group of Forces are conducting successful offensive operations on the Kuzemovsky sector of the front, occupying more advantageous positions.
