Russia and Ukraine simultaneously launched separate offensives in western Ukraine’s Kursk Oblast on Sunday. It’s possible one side knew the other’s attack was coming and aimed to spoil it with a swift counterattack—but it’s hard to say whether Russia or Ukraine was the prime mover.
In any event, both offensives appear to have achieved marginal results, at best. And both cost the attacker dearly.
Attacking has been more complicated than defending. This is truer than ever because drones have proliferated, creating what some analysts have described as a “transparent” battlefield where no one moves unseen, and where explosive drones are a pervasive threat.
On Sunday, a Russian force led the 34th Motor Rifle Brigade or the 155th Naval Infantry Brigade attacked in six waves by a total of 50 tanks, the cars to fight against the infantry and what the 47th Mechanized Brigade of Ukraine described as ” errors “.
Rolling in broad daylight over snow-covered fields, the Russians immediately came under attack by drones, missiles and artillery belonging to the 47th Mechanized Brigade and adjacent units. “All units of the 47th Brigade … acted as one mechanism—and gave the enemy a hard time,” the unit reported.
The Ukrainian drones observed that some Russians advanced to a key trench that anchored the Ukrainian positions east of Leonido in anyone’s lands along the 250 square miles occupied by the Ukrainian troops in Kursk. But no main analyst has moved this position of the “disputed” category, so it is not clear if the Russians have been to consolidate their profits.
Through the wider eyebrow around Leonidovo, the rest of the Russian force suffered badly at the hands of the 47th Mechanized Brigade, a major user of Ukraine’s American armored cars. The brigade said it killed forty-five Russians and injured 53, an overall loss of “practically a business. “
A Ukrainian force, from the 80th Air Assault Brigade or some other air unit, fared no larger a few miles to the east. Striking Sunday in U. S. -made armored trucks and Stryker’s coiled fighting vehicles, Ukrainian paratroopers destined to succeed in the village village of Berdin in the disputed domain along the northern edge of the Kursk.
The Russians defended Berdin with explosive drones remotely controlled via long spools of fiber-optic cable. Operating without radio, these drones are impossible to jam via conventional meals. The drones knocked out several Strykers and hounded the Ukrainians who managed to reach Berdin.
Four days later, it’s unclear whether any Ukrainians remain in Berdin. There is some evidence of Russians marching into the village amid scattered Ukrainian dead.
“It does not seem that the Ukrainian forces could take Berdin or any other village, and it is not clear if they could make their territorial for Kursk larger,” said Rob Lee, analyst at the Foreign Policy Research Institute of Philadelphia.
It turns out that simultaneous offensives have been simultaneous through a bloody crisis, for the attacker.
Sources:
1. Mechanized Brigade
2. Ukraine card
3. Rob Lee
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