@Render
Interesting animation of the recent progress towards Ilyium.
https://twitter.com/TarmoJuntunen/status/1568227635641331713
@Render
Ha!
I'm looking forward to the one that starts in February.
@Render
I don't think there's much extraordinary about the tactics. I suppose the strategy was more broad: Get them to pull resources from the NE Front by threatening the Southern Front.
They were weakened in the NE.
Ukraine merely concentrated and went in hot where they could get to Kupiansk fastest.
@jurban Understand that not all of the units from either side that are or were present are shown in that graphic.
There are at least three, possibly four, units that seem to be missing from the Ukr side for which there is video confirmation of being present in the advance. 3rd, 4th, and 10th Tank Brigades and 93rd Mech Brigade.
Special forces/ABN to probe then break the line, territorial defense to widen the gap/protect the flanks, heavy armor to penetrate deep into the rear.
@Render
Understood.
I saw a tweet where they said 5,000 troops were recently trained in the UK and were added to this offensive. Fresh forces.
That was an attempt by the only unit (11th Tank Regiment, 18th Guards Motor Rifle Division) combat ready and in range to reinforce what the Russians thought to be a strong point that could stem the Ukr advance.
It was not what the Russians thought, the Ukr was/is/are moving too fast for them.
11th Tank ran into a Ukr buzzsaw that knew they were coming and it disintegrated. Survivors abandoned their vehicles and joined the rout eastwards.
@jurban That's really good! I wish I'd known about it, it would have saved me about 2000 characters of CoSo space.
Here's the current update...