Russian armored assault fails abruptly in Avdiivka
Russian armored assault fails abruptly in Avdiivka
What did they even try to do? Drop off soldiers and get away or did it just went wrong and they bailed?
I don't now, but it looked like they were trying to get everyone killed. Insane clusterf*k.
Highest single-day casualty number yesterday. 1380 Russian soldiers in a day. This may have been part of it. I feel sorry for each individual soldier and their families, they likely had no real choice and were between a rock and a hard place. But as long as they continue attacking, Ukraine has every right to kill or at least repel them by force. War is a terrible, awful business, any way you look at it.
I am a completely ignorant of good military strategy. So here is my complete guess on the Russian strategy.
The column was supposed to advance behind the mine clearing tank to the treeline. Then disembark the infantry to dig in, while providing covering fire.
Once the infantry was dug in they could retreat to provide indirect fire support for an infantry assault.
The ukranians screwed up the plan, by spotting the column early and hitting them hard with accurate artillery fire. It looks like they knocked out one of the armor the middle of the column stalling the rest of the vehicles behind it.
These stalled vehicles kicked out the infantry early and attempted to retreat without providing covering fire. Leaving the infantry in the open and exposed to some nasty airburst rounds.
I would say that most of the fault for the loss in life was the mine clearing tank. It should have swung back around followed it's course. Creating a 2 lane clearing that following armor could turn around in and retreat around the damaged equipment picking up survivors.
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"dpicm rounds": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual-purpose_improved_conventional_munition
The air-to-surface variety of this kind of munition is better known as a cluster bomb.