Posted on 04/02/2022 12:24:00 PM PDT by Zhang Fei
When a Russian tank army swept southwest from the Russia-Belarus border region into northern Ukraine on the morning of Feb. 24, a single Ukrainian tank brigade stood between it and the eastern suburbs of Kyiv.
The Ukrainian army’s 1st Tank Brigade was outnumbered—not only by the 10 or so battalion tactical groups belonging to the Russian 41st Combined Arms Army, but also adjacent Russian formations.
Incredibly, the 1st Tank Brigade not only halted the larger Russian force in the first few days of Russia’s wider war in Ukraine, it swiftly transitioned to an active defense and, for the next five weeks, protected the city of Chernihiv, 60 miles northeast of Kyiv.
The Russians surrounded and cut off Chernihiv, but the 1st Tank Brigade and an assortment of reserve and territorial units held out. On Thursday, the Ukrainians retook the first of several main roads connecting Kyiv and Chernihiv, lifting a month-long siege and shifting the momentum along this front toward the Ukrainians for the first time since the Russians attacked.
The 1st Tank Brigade is one of the best of Ukraine’s 20 active brigades. It includes three tank battalions with the latest locally-produced T-64BM tanks as well as a mechanized infantry battalion with BMP fighting vehicles. Each battalion on paper includes 40 or 50 vehicles and around 400 troops.
The brigade’s supporting troops include three artillery battalions—one each with 2S1 and 2S3 self-propelled howitzers and BM-21 rocket-launchers—plus air-defense troops with Strela-10 and Tunguska tracked missile-launchers and guns.
Other units, including nearby air-defense and artillery brigades, provide additional firepower, including heavier rockets and howitzers and longer-range air-defense systems.
The 1st Tank Brigade, like many Ukrainian formations, once was part of the Soviet army—and fell into disarray following the Soviet collapse in 1991. The Ukrainian army reconstituted the brigade in September 2014.
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Ukraine ping
Woo-hoo! Good work boys.
Western Oligarchs defeating Russian Oligarchs!
After reading the article, it sounds like this brigade was trained by US and/or NATO advisors. And that the Ukraine Army adopted US/NATO training and operations standards, especially concerning “active defense.”
I am impressed. I only hope that we in the USA have the same patriotic resolve and determination to fight against overwhelming odds protecting our nation, our way of life, should we ever be put to the test.
Whenever one army sweeps through another without air support, I wonder what the other army is doing. And why?
What’s Klaus Schwab’s position on this matter?
Sad day for our Putin Shirtless crew.
Congrats to Ukraine and may all the putin loving beta makes go down in flames.
The Russians sabotaged their own equipment and then finally ran away.
“I only hope that we in the USA have the same patriotic resolve and determination to fight against overwhelming odds protecting our nation, our way of life, should we ever be put to the test.”
I’m afraid the Ukrainians value freedom more than Americans do.
[Woo-hoo! Good work boys.
Western Oligarchs defeating Russian Oligarchs!]
I’m suspecting a lot of overlap between the pro-Putin crowd, and 9/11 Truthers. Just a hunch.
Impossible.
Javelins and stingers and guys on foot are doing everything.
I think the U.S./NATO training between 2015 and today is a major reason for the improvement in the performance of the Ukrainian army overall. Things like the importance of maintenance, how to set up a staff, giving subordinates more freedom to act, etc., Can pay big dividends.
Just for their benefit, here’s Putin’s day planner.
SUNDAY APRIL 3rd
0600 _ Rise, run three kilometers, wrestle with bear.
0700 _ Eat bear for breakfast.
0800 _ Steroid injection
0900 _ Sit at long end of table and listen to bad news
1030 _ Fire bringers of bad news
1200 _ Call and ask how it’s going grabbing land near Sea of Azov.
1300 _ Look at map and scowl.
1400 _ Convert billion US dollars to quadrillion rubles.
1500 _ Call girlfriend in Switzerland.
1600 _ Run three more kilometres, wrestle bear to draw.
1700 _ Look for helpful passages in Bible.
1800 _ Chat with Maduro who just got up.
1900 _ Daily list of firings, people to be poisoned tomorrow.
2000 _ Watch old SNL tapes — it was funny when Medvedev was president.
Was thinking the same.
All the “cool” stereotypes people have about Russians are really about Ukrainians.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJtpts5my-E
“Sad day for our Putin Shirtless crew.”
They still have the Pooti posters on their walls of him shirtless. Tore down the decades old Farah Fawcett posters and replaced with Pooti.
“I’m suspecting a lot of overlap between the pro-Putin crowd, and 9/11 Truthers. Just a hunch.”
Don’t forget they spent a few years in middle spouting off about Q and how we had to “Trust Sessions”
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