Russia and Ukraine presented offensives simultaneously in the offensive in western Ukraine on Sunday. It is imaginable that one aspect knew that the attack on the other came and aimed to spoil it with a quick counterattack, but it is difficult to say if Russia or Ukraine was the main engine.
In any event, both offensives appear to have achieved marginal results, at best. And both cost the attacker dearly.
Attack has been more complicated than defending itself. This is more true than ever because drones have proliferated, creating what some analysts have described as a “transparent” battlefield where no one moves without being seen, and where explosive drones are an omnipresent threat.
On Sunday, a Russian force apparently led by the 34th Motor Rifle Brigade or the 155th Naval Infantry Brigade attacked in six waves totaling 50 tanks, infantry fighting vehicles and what the Ukrainian 47th Mechanized Brigade described as “buggies.”
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 have observed that some Russians are complex with a key trench that anchors the Ukrainian positions east of Leonido in the nobody’s Landes along the 250 square miles, the Ukrainian troops occupy in Kursk. But no main analyst has moved this position in the “disputed” category, so it is not transparent if the Russians consolidated their profits.
Across the wider front around Leonidovo, the rest of the Russian force suffered badly at the hands of the 47th Mechanized Brigade, a main user of Ukraine’s American-made armored vehicles. The brigade reported killing 45 Russians and wounding 53, a total loss of “practically a company.”
A Ukrainian force, from the 80A Air attack brigade or some other air unit, has not behaved a few kilometers to the east. Attacted on Sunday in armored American production trucks and Stryker rolled fighting vehicles, Ukrainian paratrooides aimed at being successful in the town of Berdin in the domain played along the northern border of Kursk.
The Russians defended Berdin with explosive drones controlled remotely via long reels of fiber-optic cable. Operating without a radio, those drones must get stuck through traditional meals. The drones took out several strykers and tracked down the Ukrainians they controlled to succeed in Berdin.
Four days later, it is transparent whether Ukrainians stay in Berdin. There is evidence that Russians are walking through the village amid the scattered Utterinian 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 the simultaneous offensives were simultaneous in a bloody disaster, for the attacker.
Sources:
1. Mechanized Brigade
2. Ukraine Control Card
3. Rob Lee
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