Frente Kherson-Mykolaiv
According to Russia's MoD,, during the Kherson counteroffensive, Kyiv lost more than 1,200 people (a full-fledged regiment), 48 T-72M1 tanks, 46 infantry fighting vehicles of various modifications (including the Dutch YPR-765), 37 other armored vehicles and at least two Su-25 aircraft.
The Units of the 128th Separate Mountain Assault Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine arrived from Mukachevo (Transcarpathian region) to carry out the operation from western Ukraine. Up to 70% of the losses were suffered by the 21st and 36th separate motorized rifle battalions, as well as rear units, which were destroyed by long-range artillery, including the Smerch MLRS.
The number of soldiers is estimated at about 12 thousand, which is critically small for the development of success. The AFU do not yet have a second echelon and reserves, including equipment, in this area, and this runs counter to the statements of the Ukrainian leadership about "a million mobilized" for the "liberation of the south of the country.
In fact, the ukrainian military achieved only one thing - they advanced 7 km in a southeasterly direction on the segment between the villages of Andreevka and Lozovo and found themselves blocked on the steppe landscape in the area of Sukhoi Stavok.
Taking advantage of the increased attention of russian forces in this theater of operations, Kyiv tried to eliminate the Arkhangelsk bridgehead (located near the urban-type settlement of Arkhangelskoye, 45 km northeast of Sukhoi Stavka) in order to exclude the potential possibility of its use for strikes by the Uragan MLRS against the strongholds of the forces of Ukraine on the near approaches to Krivoy Rog. This idea of the forces of Ukraine also failed. Active counter-battery and anti-tank actions by Russian units, as well as Su-25SM air strikes, not only ensured control over the bridgehead, but also made it possible to undermine the defense capability of a number of Ukrainian fortifications.
In addition, the leadership of the Armed Forces of Ukraine actively reports that during the offensive missile strikes destroyed bridges across the Dnieper (including the Antonovsky bridge, the neighboring railway bridge and the crossing on the Kakhovskaya dam). Allegedly, this will tear off parts of the russian forces from logistics supply, but still lack of evidence, bridges are really damaged, but not destroyed and are now being restored. At the same time, the decrease in the pace of supply is partially offset by ferry crossings built by the engineering units of the Russian army.
At the moment, the fighting continues. There are reports that the AFU are trying to pull additional forces to the line of contact.
According to Russia's MoD,, during the Kherson counteroffensive, Kyiv lost more than 1,200 people (a full-fledged regiment), 48 T-72M1 tanks, 46 infantry fighting vehicles of various modifications (including the Dutch YPR-765), 37 other armored vehicles and at least two Su-25 aircraft.
The Units of the 128th Separate Mountain Assault Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine arrived from Mukachevo (Transcarpathian region) to carry out the operation from western Ukraine. Up to 70% of the losses were suffered by the 21st and 36th separate motorized rifle battalions, as well as rear units, which were destroyed by long-range artillery, including the Smerch MLRS.
The number of soldiers is estimated at about 12 thousand, which is critically small for the development of success. The AFU do not yet have a second echelon and reserves, including equipment, in this area, and this runs counter to the statements of the Ukrainian leadership about "a million mobilized" for the "liberation of the south of the country.
In fact, the ukrainian military achieved only one thing - they advanced 7 km in a southeasterly direction on the segment between the villages of Andreevka and Lozovo and found themselves blocked on the steppe landscape in the area of Sukhoi Stavok.
Taking advantage of the increased attention of russian forces in this theater of operations, Kyiv tried to eliminate the Arkhangelsk bridgehead (located near the urban-type settlement of Arkhangelskoye, 45 km northeast of Sukhoi Stavka) in order to exclude the potential possibility of its use for strikes by the Uragan MLRS against the strongholds of the forces of Ukraine on the near approaches to Krivoy Rog. This idea of the forces of Ukraine also failed. Active counter-battery and anti-tank actions by Russian units, as well as Su-25SM air strikes, not only ensured control over the bridgehead, but also made it possible to undermine the defense capability of a number of Ukrainian fortifications.
In addition, the leadership of the Armed Forces of Ukraine actively reports that during the offensive missile strikes destroyed bridges across the Dnieper (including the Antonovsky bridge, the neighboring railway bridge and the crossing on the Kakhovskaya dam). Allegedly, this will tear off parts of the russian forces from logistics supply, but still lack of evidence, bridges are really damaged, but not destroyed and are now being restored. At the same time, the decrease in the pace of supply is partially offset by ferry crossings built by the engineering units of the Russian army.
At the moment, the fighting continues. There are reports that the AFU are trying to pull additional forces to the line of contact.
