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The Armed Forces of Ukraine have recently increased their attacks on Russian military positions on the southern Donbass front lines. At the same time, large Ukrainian forces are accumulated in the Zaporozhie and Kherson regions. The ongoing military developments may mark the upcoming large-scale Ukrainian offensive aimed at slashing the Russian grouping in the Donbass and Ukrainian advance towards the Sea of Azov.
On March 19, the AFU launched a counterattack near the village of Novodanilovka located to the south-east of the town of Orekhov. Two assault groups of the 128th mountain assault brigade of the AFU, reinforced by the units of the territorial defense attempted to bypass Russian strongholds from the flanks.
Ukrainian forces used smoke before the attack. They cleared the passages in minefields in the area and remotely mined approaches to the Russian positions to prevent them from sending reserves and blockade evacuation. According to Russian military reporters, Ukrainian aircraft struck Russian military positions.
The Ukrainian column was timely detected by Russian drones and immediately shelled by Russian artillery and struck with ATGMs. Shooting battle broke out on the right flank of the Russian positions.
The Russian 291st regiment of the 42nd motor rifle division and the scouts of the 22nd separate special mission brigade repelled the attack and the AFU turned back towards Novodanilovka.
According to preliminary reports, about 25 Ukrainian servicemen were killed, 3 tanks, 3 infantry fighting vehicles were destroyed. Several Russian servicemen were wounded.
The fighting filmed by the Ukrainian servicemen who was killed in the battle:
It was the second Ukrainian attack in the area this week.
On March 15, units of the 56th and 58th motorized Infantry Brigades of the AFU attempted to attack Russian positions near the settlements of Krasnoe and Marfopol located to the east of GulyaiPole.
A tank platoon and a BMP platoon, as well as up to two companies (200 servicemen) of infantry units took part in the offensive. The approach of the Ukrainian military was also detected by Russian UAVs and the column was stopped by Russian artillery.
As a result of the operation, the AFU also reportedly lost up to 30 servicemen, at least 3 tanks and 3 infantry vehicles.
The following video shows the destroyed Ukrainian vehicles (18+):
The Ukrainian attacks are likely to repeat on the Zaporozhie front lines. The Ukrainian military continues combat reconnaissance, looking for soft spots in Russian defenses and assessing the reaction of Russian forces. All Ukrainian servicemen are equipped and likely trained by NATO.
The Ukrainian command is preparing for a large-scale offensive, while the columns of Western military equipment are on their way to Ukrainian front lines.
“All Ukrainian servicemen are equipped and trained by NATO.” well then the NATO training must be miserable. Sending soldiers to certain death, what kind of dumb strategy is that.
it is, indeed. And our own soldiers in the EU are even weaker than the obedient suicidal ukros: the bravest spendable scum in Europe. Poor ukro-bastards….
brave is good but smart is better the smart man stays off the battlefield because that is where lives and resources are wasted for no good reason other than politicians pissing contests
1… This is a multilevel multidomain strategy friend… thats why USA is the Master of Universe Empire… just one tiny little spot is the real Battlefield in Ukraine… USA Generals would not care less Ukraine bad training soldiers… In the long run strategy (Power Dimmension) try to weak Russia… in the middle run (Diplomacy Dimension): isolate Russia diplomaticly doing now…
Except they are not, quite the reverse.
Shocking horror. Poor bastards. Zerolensky should be hung on a short drop
As the Russians know the cosentration off Ukrainian troops and there Nato, yankee commanders, why are they still not exterminated by balistic missils ?
They should be, completely iksanders or whatever else they have to drop on the UAF wherever they accumulate at the company level or greater.
The Russians are doing a great job, the only thing I could hope for is that more MANPADS make it to this region as the Ukrainians should be completely afraid to fly anything remotely close to the Russian positions.
Yeah and there are still clowns that think Ukraine is winning or lose less soldiers…
good to see the NAZI USA trooper BURNED TO A CRISP that is what is waiting for you NAZI USA. =Z=
Today AFU again was shelling Donbass killing 42 civilians and small kids in Donetsk, and Kremlin was again outraged because it was against the Minsk Agreement done with our equal partners.
Putin declared also today that Russia has not even started yet to defend our Slavic brothers in Donbass.
Just imagine the serbs or iraqis beeing able to acumulate a huge group of military personal to push forward without the us doing f… all about it … impossible.
It is obvoius that the russians either lack the interest or the options to do it. Whatever it is if i would be a russian soldier i would flee the counry if my command does not do anything possible to avoid own casulties. Whatever game of 4d chess the russian command is playing it is playing it on the backs of russian and donbas soldiers as well as donbas civilians.
This is the fate of ukros: naked and roasted, dead but with penis erected.
The Russian s are showing restraint against their Slav brothers, eventually there will be more death on both sides, they are not all nazis some are just recent conscripts, I believe they are rope a doping it some to exhaust further their ammunition. There no road to bakmut they cannot counter there
2… there are several dimmensions involved in WAR between Powers… USA did not care if Russia kill every Ukraine Citizen they will use them as a Prize to Blame Russia, afterall USA Multinationals would Rebuild Ukraine and USA citizen or citizens from Colonies would be reubicated in Ukraine so USA will manage the New Colony of Ukraine. Afterall they will expand their Empire…. thats why they dont care about killing thousand Ukraine bad trained soldiers in the battlefield or even lose the Ukraine War…. the Empire will be Bigger at the end and your enemy Russia would be blamed by everything happened. Can you understand what I wrote?
1… This is a multilevel multidomain strategy friend… thats why USA is the Master of Universe Empire… just one tiny little spot is the real Battlefield in Ukraine… USA Generals would not care less Ukraine bad training soldiers… In the long run strategy (Power Dimmension) try to weak Russia… in the middle run (Diplomacy Dimension): isolate Russia diplomaticly doing now…
3. Who think that war is fighting in the battlefield and in the Sea, Land, Air domains… Wars between Powers are Fight in every domain conceived… even cyber and space domain… also economic, commercial, commodity… also there is Multilevel or MultiLayer… thats why USA didnt win in Afghanistan or Syria or Vietnam, they just fight to several reassond anyways… the Masters Of the Universe still is number 1 right? Is NATO still going to the East or not?… is NATO going straight near to Russia borders and preparing the Satellite Countries just to accept a direct war with Russia or not? Is USA changing JAPAN Constitution just to Japan could growth Militarly again… think twice Friend… for every soldier Ukraine loss USA is preparing and getting bigger the case using PROPAGANDA so puppets could declare war on Russia also… think twice and think good and you will understand why these things happen
What a load of nonsense.
Whatever you idiots think you are up to is ill advised. Please reconsider.
Russian dominance only weakens USA and NATO; Russia has devoted less than 15% of its military so far and none of the most lethal weapons
The thing about the contact fire fight in that wood when you are close and cosy with the other side is you don’t know when someone is going to chose you as their target. As in “Never mind the bullet with your name on it. Beware of the bullet that says “To Whom it May Concern”. Joe Kenda
Another truckload of USeful idiots that died to prolong the nightmare of the angloZionaZi empire of shit and its IOU fiat filth chosenite $crip. Send in the Polak$ already and get this crap finished.
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Don’t you worry, lads. After the successful winter and spring offensives, my army is about to launch the summer offensive.
driving a attack on daylight in the m113 aluminium thincans, in an wide open lanscape, seems to be a very baaaad idea.
“while the columns of Western military equipment are on their way to Ukrainian front lines”
WHY?
Why hasn’t Russia destroyed the bridges over the Dnipro River to prevent the Ukrainians from receiving this support???
Well, here we go with the Ukronazis Natostan offensive. Or should we be saying how offensive both NATO and the NAZIS are to human civilization with their evil thuggery.
I imagine these Western back NAZIS, are, as delusional; as a group of being get, Lol.
The Russians still have some 500,000 troops sitting on the side line for a couple months now. Massive concentration of heavy armor south and east in Donbas, as well all along Belarusian border. Air superiority and control on Black Sea coast, so where in hell US and NATOSTAN think they are going to create victory, outside of pushing for nuclear war. Russia and China understand the US and NATO are desperate to survive; as they have lost their gambit to crush Russia. Nato is weak and could be crushed by both Russia and China if they moved in to Western Europe. That’s a fact and Western nations are lucky they aren’t, as Powe hungry, as themselves.