Putin beordrar styrkor att gå in i Ukraina - INVASION NU (2022-02-24)

A little reflection on the fact that the captured Ukrainians do not know the general picture of the hostilities.

All the prisoners captured by our military in the Izyum region could not even name with certainty the neighbors on the right and left (which contradicts the basics of tactics), not to mention the location of headquarters and other positions. And the point here is not in their character, obstinacy or desire to keep the sovereign secret at all costs. Everything is much more prosaic.

The command that sent units to the front line deliberately did not let them know the details of the disposition of their troops. The reason for this is the advance confidence in the destruction and capture of their soldiers. And, therefore, they do not need to know anything.

In fact, sending more and more cannon fodder into battle, the commanders did not even have a shadow of hope that their fighters would be able to oppose the Russian Army in battle. Therefore, they left them in an open field in happy ignorance of future events and their fate.

In general, tactics in the Izyum direction have not changed. Parts are moving from settlement to settlement, leaving units to control key points.

The First Tank Army continues its steady advance westward from Izyum on both sides of the Seversky Donets River. Plants and Chervony Miner were taken, Velyka Kamyshevakha, which is a major defense center of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, is visible through binoculars.

The heroic 20th army, having taken Sukha Kamenka and Suligovka, attacks the enemy in the direction of the village of Dolgenka and Kurulki, cutting off the supply routes to the units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine throughout the Slavic-Kramatorsk agglomeration.
Parts of the 41st Army reached the line of the Oskol River.

The low rate of advance, instead of moving in long columns at the beginning of the war, made it possible to reduce losses in personnel to a minimum, while at the same time inflicting huge damage on the enemy.

For example: the 39th brigade, which stormed Suligovka, has a couple of dozen dead and several dozen wounded during the entire period of hostilities, while only the 95th brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine lost more than 100 people killed in battles with them, while being in a well-prepared defense. And in addition to the 95th brigade, units of the 93rd mechanized and 25th air assault brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were also defeated there.

As many have rightly noted, they stopped showing Russian prisoners, and the reason for this is simple, they simply do not exist. On the other hand, fresh batches of captive vushniks are sent to Russia every day.

We have problems, the war forced us to look at and evaluate many things differently, but what I can say for sure is that now we see a completely different army than on February 24, 2022. And this can be best described in the words of A.S. Pushkina:

But in the temptations of a long punishment,
Having endured the blows of fate,
Russia has grown stronger. So heavy mat, crushing glass, forges damask steel.