Posted on 09/24/2023 12:07:48 AM PDT by UMCRevMom@aol.com
I am Ukrainian. My country has been invaded by Russia. In this video I will tell you what happened on the five hundred seventy seventh day of the war.
Day 577: Sep 23
Today, there are a lot of positive updates from the Tokmak direction.
Recently, Russian sources reported that in the aftermath of continued offensive operations, Ukrainian forces cut off a crucial supply road between Novoprokopivka and Verbove. However, Ukrainians did not achieve it by focusing on this area directly, rather, the collapse of the Russian defense happened as a consequence of their defeats around Verbove.
Previously, I told you that Ukrainians concentrated their efforts on clearing all major fortifications located on the second line of defense and that the operation was successful, and they opened virtually complete access to the village. After that, Ukrainians proceeded to widen the corridor by shaving off the Russian defense line. Gradually, Ukrainians advanced by up to 1 km and pushed Russians away from the positions that covered their supply road between Verbove and Novoprokopivka.
What this means is that now Russians cannot redeploy their forces as quickly between the two directions and have to make a long detour. On top of that, such changes also allowed Ukrainians to protect the flanks of the attack group around Novoprokopivka. Ukrainians immediately leveraged the obtained benefits and suddenly shifted their focus from Verbove to Novoprokopivka.
Here, Ukrainians already set the proper conditions for the attack because, even according to Russian sources, Ukrainians cleared all tree lines northeast of the settlement, which means that there is only one field that separates Ukrainians from the village, and Ukrainians also established total control over all fortifications north of Novoprokopivka.
Ukrainian fighters released footage showing how they conducted powerful artillery preparation on the Russian positions on the contact line. Ukrainian artillery crews also released footage of advanced counter-battery duels showing how Ukrainian multiple-launch rocket system M270 (which is the same as HIMARS but has twice as many rockets) hunts down Russian Uragans.
Next, Ukrainians conducted an assault from the north and attacked Russian positions on the northern outskirts of the village. The attack was swift because the closest Ukrainian positions are just 400 meters away from the houses in Novoprokopivka. The attack has driven Russians away from the outer dozen of houses, and now this part of the village is in the grey zone.
Russian forces tried to conduct a counterattack and rolled out their tanks to fire at Ukrainians in the shelters with high-explosive shells. Unfortunately for the Russians, the tank either exploded on a mine or got hit with an anti-tank missile, and the crew abandoned the tank and ran away. Ukrainian drone operators finished the job by dropping a mine inside the Russian tank and causing an explosion.
Russian analysts expressed their discontent about the fact that most Russian equipment never gets evacuated from the front and instead is promptly destroyed by Ukrainians or by Russians themselves if the piece of equipment is modern, like T-90 tanks. Moreover, Russian analysts raised the question of why Russians do not make sure that all damaged and abandoned Ukrainian equipment is destroyed.
The discussions were caused by the recently released footage of the evacuated Leopard tank that got immobilized by a mine at the beginning of summer. The first video with this tank was published on 15 June. The intact tank stood in one place for more than 3 months and 9 days, and after the contact line shifted south and allowed to evacuate it, Ukrainians got back one more Leopard.
Overall, Ukrainians advanced by more than 1 km along the main line of defense, cut a Russian supply road, split them into 2 groups, secured their flanks, and conducted the first assault on Novoprokopivka. As a result, Russians were driven out of the northern part of the village and were unable to restore control in their counterattack. The attacks are expected to intensify as Russian fighters reported that Ukrainians are gradually deploying additional forces to the contact line.
“Ukrainians immediately leveraged the obtained benefits (of cutting the supply road) and suddenly shifted their focus from Verbove to Novoprokopivka.
Here, Ukrainians already set the proper conditions for the attack”…
Unmentioned in this article, is that the setting of conditions for that attack included decapitation strikes on the Russian forces in Novoprokopivka (the Airborne (VDV) units recently sent to reinforce).
The whole Senior Chain of Command was killed or wounded yesterday.
The Commanding Admiral of the Black Sea Fleet was killed. Col Gen Alexander Romanchuk (commander of Russian troops on the Zaporizhzhia front) is in a “very serious condition” and Lt Gen Oleg Tsekov (his Chief of Staff) is “unconscious”, Lieutenant General Denis Lyamin (Commander of VDV forces in the area) was also wounded in a separate strike..
Reminds me of the Clintons.......one lies and the other swears to it.
Thx......if it hadn’t been for your thoughtfulness, I’d have missed these astounding revelations.
lol......
Bullshit. They were “annexed” by your stupid leader, Putin.
Kirandyl is trying to fool himself, since he’s the only one who believes his crap.
No, they are not. They are in the Ukraine. The Russian ‘annexation’ of these areas DURING THE WAR is in dispute.
So surrender to the murderers, komrades! You might want to double-check with your propaganda HQ: Russia said this was a humanitarian mission.
You forgot the obvious part: Russia across all of Northern and Western Ukraine, making their primary drive the destruction of Kiev. They were routed. Facing the obvious loss of their primary objective, they dug in South of the Dneiper and in the Eastern territories they’ve held since 2014. Soviet propagandists claim that Putin attacked Kiev as a mere diversion, and in fact only had sought four oblasts.
But Putin had long claimed Novorussia to include Kharkiv, Mykolaiv, Odessa and Dneipopetrovsk, and had invaded them, but his drives into Kharkiv, Mykolaiv and Odessa were decisively beaten.
Let’s also not forget that Russia doesn’t even control the more populated regions of Zaporizhzhia or Kherson, including the seats of government.
“Thx......if it hadn’t been for your thoughtfulness, I’d have missed these astounding revelations.”
You are most welcome.
Just ignore the *spamalot ping* gang members :D
Ukraine threatened to turn the Black Sea port of the Russian Fleet to NATO. You took NATO money. You became openly hostile to Russia. You put the NAZI party into power. Your president lied and 370K Ukraines and 60K Russians died.
Depending on where the speaker in the video lives, he may find himself a new Polish, Hungarian or Russia citizen;)
What your saying with your post:
“Putin poorly run invasion of Ukraine has resulted in every Ukrainian being personally effected and motivated them to resist to the death”
Fixed it for you. Hope you learn faster that LBJ about ‘body’ counts.
You’re a truly great FReeper........no joke.
Please stop using the tired, old Youkazoid play of putting words in peoples' mouths. That is not what I meant to say.
You fixed nothing for me.
I'm used to you Youcrayniacs twisting your opponent's words to suit your Youkamaniacal pathologies and sick agendas.
Good you referenced the vile LBJ, who blatantly lied the US into the Vietnam War at the cost of 50,000 of our boys and many thousands more horribly mutilated and permanently injured.
Now, a new group of self-enriching, warmongering scumbags are trying to snooker us into a similar play in the vile, corrupt craphole of Youcrayne.
If they're successful, may it be their children that pay the price for their lies, not decent, ordinary Americans. Same goes for all the Youke-supporting propagandists, including those on FR.
Not a single penny more of American taxpayers' hard earned cash for Youcrayne, that vile, child trafficking, money laundering mecca of the "elites."
“You’re a truly great FReeper........no joke.”
Thank you.
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