Ukraine: military situation update with maps, April 29, 2022
War in Ukraine
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCP2QApi8G2TKc8NZmeDWSUg/videos
Extra bonus: Taking a town from the UA from the Russian perspective.
Tactical fighting for Ruizhne: perspective from Russian volunteer, early March - mid April 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tg7EspqKXGI
**UA continues to target military and energy infrastructure inside Russia (north of Kursk, Kursk, Belgorod, attempts on Voronezh) with rockets and UAVs.
**Russians claim falsely that the UA is shelling Russian villages west of Kursk. Therefore, Russia is shelling UA villages on the border. This is forming part of the Russian Casus Belli for a full war declaration later.
**Ukraine starting to feel pain fro Russian attacks on railroads: sever shortages of fuel,
**Very little Changs in front lines.
Summary:
Key areas:
- Izyum bridgehead - successful Russian attack to capture back village of Zavody, also captured village of Velyka Kamyshevakha.
- Russian troops are slowly mopping up corner between Oskil and Siverskiy Donets rivers controlled by Ukrainian side before.
- Attack on Orikhiv, fighting in the town. Unclear outcome of the attack, potentially captured by Russian troops.
1. Kharkiv: no major changes to frontline since yesterday’s Ukrainian gains. It appears that the frontline is manned mostly by forced conscripts from DNR (occupied Donetsk region of Ukraine) - low fighting spirit and motivation, poorly equipped.
2. Izyum bridgehead: No major Russian progress today. It is extremely dangerous penetration by Russian troops that potentially could lead to large pocket for Ukrainian troops west of Donetsk.
3. Lyman bridgehead. Russian side claims progress in mopping up this bridgehead held by Ukrainian troops. Specifically, village of Yampil, Krymky, Oleksandrivka are claimed as captured. It’s totally possible scenario, however, we don’t have any other supporting evidence of this claim so far.
**Russian forces clearing UA bridgehead north of Donets River; will be cleared in next 4-5 days. Unverified from Russian sources.
Donbas Salient:
4. Popasna, Rubizhne and Severodonetsk. Russian troops captured majority of Rubizhne. Popasna is about 70-80% captured by Russian troops. Russian mercenaries - Wagner Group operates in Popasna, also Russian 57 brigade operates there as well.
5. West of Donetsk: Avidyivka and Maryinka. Avdiyivaka - never ending attempts of the Russian side to break-through there.
6. Vugledar is in Ukrainian hands.
7. Velyka Novosilka - Gulyapole stretch of frontline. Ukrainian strongholds are towns of Gulyaypole and village of Velyka Novosilka. Russian 19D is operating there. Russian troops are consolidating their gains. Also, 42D has been spotted in the area.
8. Russian attack on town of Orikhiv was repelled yesterday even though Russian troops managed to get into town.
9. Mariupol: opportunity to do a breakout attempt by the Ukrainian forces might have been lost as density of Russian troops increased due to smaller perimeter. Based on other sources, opportunity to break out is still viable.
**Russian forces around Mariupol pulled and are resting - 801NB suffered very heavy losses. 2nd rate troops from Occupied Donetsk replaced them.
10. Mykolayiv: No major gains by Russian troops there after capture of village Tavriyske yesterday.
Forces might have been lost as density of Russian troops increased due to smaller perimeter. Based on other sources, opportunity to break out is still viable.
11. Mykolayiv: Russian troops carried out small scale attack and captured village of Tavriyske.
**Russian troops strategic defense, protecting water source for Crimea.
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Thanks for taking time to build this informative post. It contained a lot of useful information.
Aside from dealing with immediate battlefield threats, the UA would be smart to prowl the Russian rear areas with its drones to locate and destroy Russian soft skinned vehicles.
Such vehicles are normally associated with combat support and combat service support functions, especially supply, maintenance, and communications. They tend to be produced in smaller numbers and are often operated by specialist troops. So they (the specially configured vehicles and the technically trained soldiers) are not easily replaced. Knocking out…say, a motor vehicle maintenance unit may be more damaging in the long term than destroying a similar number of combat vehicles since the former unit is needed to keep the latter operating. Ditto for food, water, fuel, ammunition. The consumption rates on these commodities are significant and resupply must be continuous. Any interruption …
Of course, the same applies to the UA and there have been reports of Russian attacks on manufacturing plants, as well. Occasionally, the Russians even hit what they are actually targeting.