Intressant artikel om ryska generalen Teplinskys plan. Kartor finns i länken.
Teplinsky’s Plan: Russia Preparing Large-Scale Retreat In Kherson Region
The Russian military said last year that the left bank was almost impossible to defend, making the Dnipro a stronghold. Firstly, because the left bank is lower than the right one, it is clear and the Ukrainian Armed Forces can destroy fortifications and positions near the river (and not only near) with artillery. Secondly, because in this direction there were never enough troops to organize defense along the entire line.
Moreover, the Russian Armed Forces never completely controlled the left bank, because the Ukrainian Armed Forces and Special Operations Forces regularly deployed sabotage groups to the left bank, causing noise in the Russian rear from Enerhodar to Oleshky and sometimes going 10-15 kilometers south of the river.
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According to Russian officers who served with Teplinsky in the Zaporizhzhia direction, he long ago realized that the level and quality of training of Russian troops makes it possible to fight in defense only in numbers. In this case, the units do not flee or at least do not do it immediately, and there is someone to replace them. There are no numbers in the Kherson direction. There is also no necessary artillery power to suppress Ukrainian guns on the right bank, which are destroying targets on the left bank at a distance of 20-30 kilometers. They will not provide reserves for defense, at least not quickly.
In this situation, according to military personnel from the Dnepr headquarters, Teplinsky proposed to pull forces from the shore to the line of fortifications built in the autumn of 2022, when the Russian Armed Forces were preparing to surrender Kherson and feared a rapid advance of the Ukrainian Armed Forces on the left bank.
This line runs just north of Skadovsk, along an arc curved to the southeast and ends at Vasylivka.
https://charter97.org/en/news/2023/11/18/571994/
Teplinsky’s Plan: Russia Preparing Large-Scale Retreat In Kherson Region
The Russian military said last year that the left bank was almost impossible to defend, making the Dnipro a stronghold. Firstly, because the left bank is lower than the right one, it is clear and the Ukrainian Armed Forces can destroy fortifications and positions near the river (and not only near) with artillery. Secondly, because in this direction there were never enough troops to organize defense along the entire line.
Moreover, the Russian Armed Forces never completely controlled the left bank, because the Ukrainian Armed Forces and Special Operations Forces regularly deployed sabotage groups to the left bank, causing noise in the Russian rear from Enerhodar to Oleshky and sometimes going 10-15 kilometers south of the river.
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According to Russian officers who served with Teplinsky in the Zaporizhzhia direction, he long ago realized that the level and quality of training of Russian troops makes it possible to fight in defense only in numbers. In this case, the units do not flee or at least do not do it immediately, and there is someone to replace them. There are no numbers in the Kherson direction. There is also no necessary artillery power to suppress Ukrainian guns on the right bank, which are destroying targets on the left bank at a distance of 20-30 kilometers. They will not provide reserves for defense, at least not quickly.
In this situation, according to military personnel from the Dnepr headquarters, Teplinsky proposed to pull forces from the shore to the line of fortifications built in the autumn of 2022, when the Russian Armed Forces were preparing to surrender Kherson and feared a rapid advance of the Ukrainian Armed Forces on the left bank.
This line runs just north of Skadovsk, along an arc curved to the southeast and ends at Vasylivka.
https://charter97.org/en/news/2023/11/18/571994/
