I think this river crossing was just a diversion.
“I think this river crossing was just a diversion.”
A diversion to the bottom of the river.
I think this river crossing was just a diversion.
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More complicated. There were efforts to cross the river by both sides. Judging by the fighting reports on the Uke side of the river and towns lost by Ukes there (some today — Ukes are in retreat), at least one Russian effort succeeded. There is no information about any successful Uke crossing, and now this does not matter. It is likely that not all of Russian attempts to cross the river were successful — again, this does not matter, only once success was needed. Whether all the attempts were real and some were diversions is not possible to know.
As for this particular crossing — examining the footage shows that many of the destroyed vehicles are BMP-1 — these are old Soviet productions used by Ukes but not by the Russian Army, for a number of years.