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“Let’s Try This Again!”
Yesterday I posted a picture of a Leopard 2A6 tank, 4 Bradley infantry fighting vehicles, and a Soviet era mine clearing vehicle all caught up next to each other in a minefield. There is now also better video of that scene as well as others.
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For unknown reasons the Ukrainian command later decided to add five more Bradleys to the scrap exposition:
Military Advisor @miladvisor – 18:06 UTC · Jun 9, 2023
⚡️👇9x 🇺🇸M2 Bradley,🇩🇪Leopard 2A6, armoured recovery vehicle lost by Ukrainian forces.
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It is the same Leopard tank in the same position. I believe that the ‘armoured recovery vehicle’ @miladvisor mentions is an incorrect identification of the mine clearing vehicle that can also be seen in the previous picture.
All of those vehicles seem to have some mobility damage, i.e. they lost a track or two due to mine explosions. One of the added Bradleys seems to be on fire. Then its neighboring Bradley decides to also burn and explodes.
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Someone had sent half a company into a minefield where it was damaged and stopped. He then sent the second half of the company to the same place where it met the same fate.
“Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.” (No, that is not an Einstein quote.)
Here is a first person view video from the Ukrainian side of what, I believe, is another group of four Bradleys in a minefield. Finally someone throws smoke grenades so some of the soldiers involved can be evacuated.
Simplicitus tries to put some rationality cover over the Ukrainian decision to attack the strongest defense position of the Russian forces:
This is all to say that Ukraine has almost no time left to make a big splash. They have no option apart from gaining one final big flashy triumph they can hail as a victory to be sold to their souring Western audience, whose support is slowly drying up, and who’s getting ready to throw in the towel.
And the only way for Ukraine to get such a huge and relatively ‘fast’ triumph is by severing the Crimean landbridge. It’s the only objective in the entire conflict where Ukraine can deal one big deathblow to Russia’s jugular in a very proportionately small amount of moves. No other possible combination of captures or assaults in Donbass can have such an effect.
I find that hard to accept. One attacks where one has the highest chance of success, not where some foreign political calender tells one to go. How that is then (over-)sold to the ‘western’ public is a completely different question.
Throughout the last night the 47th brigade of the Ukrainian armed forces tried to attack the Russian lines.The 47th is supposed to be elite, as it was trained and armed by NATO countries.
Two columns of the brigade were hit and stopped before they could reach the line of contact. What was then left to attack failed to break through.
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Posted by: re Applebaum | Jun 11 2023 10:29 utc | 375
From Colonel Cassad…..
https://colonelcassad-livejournal-com.translate.goog/8416165.html
The situation in the Zaporozhye direction on the evening of June 10
Heavy losses forced the enemy to subject plans to a sharp adjustment:
The reserves deployed in the Krivoy Rog, Sumy, Kharkov directions are being transferred to the directions:
1). settlement Gornyak, Kurakhovka, Krasnogorovka, Staromikhaylovka, Marinka;
2) settlements of Nevelskoye, Pervomayskoye, Vodyanoye;
3) n.p. Dzerzhinskoye, at least 2 brigades were deployed in the direction of Mayorsk and Gorlovka.
The reserves go through the Kramatorsk-Slavyansk transport hub, entering each direction in the Zaporozhye and Donetsk regions to reinforce the existing groupings.
For the current groupings, it is currently established:
According to the strategic plan of the enemy, it is planned to push through the front line of defense along the Nesteryanka-Novoselovka line and to the south, with the forces of four brigades: 65 Ombr, 128 Obr, 108 Obr, 15 Obr NSU), and provide a bridgehead for the introduction of the main forces of the strike force.
The main strike force is aimed at the direction of Orekhov – Tokmak – Melitopol, it is planned to ensure the advance with the forces of 10 AK, the basis of the shock fist should be: 115, 116, 117, 118 ombr, which we talked about earlier.
Task: access to Melitopol from the north.
A flank strike is planned in the direction Malaya Tokmachka – Berdyansk, with the forces of 82 odshbr, 71 oembr, and 46 oambr, with the task of seizing control on the line of the settlement of Urozhaynoye, Novopoltavka, Semyonovka.
Task: Covering the left flank of the main group.
In the future, it is planned to conduct raid operations as part of battalion-tactical groups with the forces of: 46 detachments and 1 Special Forces “Azov” in the directions of the settlement of Mordvinovka, Novovasilevka, Botieva.
Objective: to capture the frontier along the coast of the Sea of Azov Stepanovka the first, Botievo and prevent the landing of amphibious assault forces of the RF Armed Forces.
Forces of the main offensive grouping up to 12 brigades (47, 66, 115, 116, 117, 118 OMBR, 128 OGSHBR, 108 OBTR, 15 OBRON NGU, 82 ODSHBR, 71 OEBR, 46 OMBR)
In total, for the offensive operation, including reserves (including marine brigades, as well as units located in the Krivoy Rog direction, included in the single plan of the operation in the Zaporozhye direction), the enemy has currently prepared: Manpower – up to 56 thousand people (
68 battalions)
Tanks – up to 350.
AFVs of all types – up to 1000
Field artillery guns and mortars – up to 500.
MLRS – up to 140 units.
(From these figures it is necessary to subtract the number of those destroyed in recent days)
IMPORTANT. The Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine is carrying out information sabotage, spreading information that the Armed Forces of Ukraine are finally bogged down due to lack of funds to continue the offensive operation.
Under no circumstances can you trust this information, it is designed to weaken the vigilance of the RF Armed Forces, the enemy has more than enough forces.
The enemy will throw everything he has into battle, regardless of losses, you must use this to inflict critical damage on him.
If this report is valid, it means that the Ukies are stripping other sections of the front to mass for the big push.
This specifically means this push is an all or nothing endeavor…
If the Ukies do this and are defeated, that is the end of the Ukie Army…
INDY
Posted by: Dr. George W Oprisko | Jun 11 2023 11:03 utc | 383
During the past day, the armed forces of Ukraine continued unsuccessful attempts of offensive actions in the South Donetsk, Zaporozhye and Donetsk directions.
In the area of the Vremyevsky salient, operational-tactical and army aviation strikes defeated clusters of manpower and equipment of the 1st separate Brigade of the President of Ukraine, the 110th Territorial Defense Brigade, the 72nd mechanized and 1st tank brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the areas of the settlements of Novodonetsky, Neskuchnoye, Storozhevoye and the October state farm Donetsk People’s Republic.
In the Zaporozhye direction, three enemy attacks from the directions of the settlements of Novodanilovka, Malaya Tokmachka and Novopokrovka of the Zaporozhye region were repulsed during the day by decisive and competent actions of the defending units, air strikes and artillery fire of the Vostok group of troops.
A column of armored vehicles of the 128th Mountain Assault Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was defeated in the area of the settlement of Lukyanovskoye, Zaporozhye region, advancing in the southern direction.
The total losses of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in these areas during the day amounted to over 50 Ukrainian servicemen, 11 tanks, including three Leopard, 17 infantry fighting vehicles, 16 armored combat vehicles, four vehicles, a Stormer anti-aircraft missile system combat vehicle, as well as the M777 artillery system.
In the Donetsk direction, the most active hostilities were conducted in the areas of the settlements of Maryinka and Avdiivka of the Donetsk People’s Republic.
During the day, the “Southern” grouping of troops successfully repelled eight attacks by units of the 110th mechanized, 1st tank, 59th motorized Infantry and 79th airborne assault brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the directions of the settlements of Novobakhmutovka, Krasnogorovka, Pervomaiske and Maryinka. There are no intrusions into our defense.
During the fighting, up to 310 Ukrainian servicemen, two tanks, two infantry fighting vehicles, two armored combat vehicles, two cars, three pickups, two Msta-B howitzers, and a D-30 howitzer were destroyed.
Ammunition depots of the 63rd Motorized Infantry and 53rd Mechanized Brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were destroyed in the areas of the settlements of Krasnoe and Lastochkino of the Donetsk People’s Republic.
In the area of the city of Orekhov, Zaporozhye region, the control point of the 47th mechanized Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was hit. In the area of the settlement of Kirovo, Zaporozhye region, the communication center of the 65th mechanized brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was destroyed. In the areas of the settlements of Rai-Alexandrovka, Predtechino of the Donetsk People’s Republic and Malaya Tokmachka of the Zaporozhye region, the headquarters of the 10th mountain assault Brigade, as well as command and observation posts of the 3rd assault Brigade and the 15th operational brigade were hit.
@mod_russia
Posted by: Fives | Jun 11 2023 12:12 utc | 393
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