text/Gu Shanwen
The Russian army's sharp retreat in Kharkov and Ijium areas is shocking. Large areas of land such as Balaclia, Ijium, Liman, and Kupiyansk changed hands again in just one week. It took the Russian army several months to get it after paying heavy losses of personnel and equipment. Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky said that if the results of Herson are included in the southern part of the Herson , the Ukrainian army has recovered 6,000 square kilometers of territory in two weeks in September.
Ukraine's Kharkiv offensive fully integrates the essence of military strategy of luring the tiger away from the mountain and speed. The attack in Khlsson at the end of August forced the Russian army to draw some of the armored troops to to block the south, which caused the loosening of the defense system in the east wing of Kharkov. Starting from September 6, several brigade-level combat groups, including the most elite 93rd aircraft brigade, 92nd aircraft brigade and 25th airborne brigade, suddenly launched a Soviet-style large-scale deep assault on the Russian military defense zone, with the target directly targeting Kupiansk, the largest strategic supply center in the northern Russian army cluster. In order to ensure that the main force can advance smoothly from Baraklia to Kupiansk, the main line of central breakthrough, the Ukrainian army also attacked Shevchenkovo on the left wing and quickly completed the occupation.
can be learned from intermittent information from the battlefield that advanced Western equipment such as the American-made "Haimas" multi-barrel rocket launcher, M-777 light howitzer and German-made PZh-2000 self-propelled howitzer , which are highly anticipated, are not the protagonists. The success of the Ukrainian army can be attributed more to the number of soldiers and the flexible and effective cooperation among all troops in a resolute and decisive deep assault.
Russian "Visit View" believes that the number of soldiers who were investing in the Kharkov offensive was 8 times that of the Russian army in front of them. When an overwhelming number of troops is superior to the number of troops, it often has the upper hand in momentum. The offensive tactic of the Ukrainian is that the tank and the infantry fighting tank advanced along the main traffic line are first responsible for tearing open the gap in the Russian defense line, and then infantrymen riding in small pickup trucks and other civilian vehicles. After the breakthrough was successful, the mechanized vanguard troops did not get entangled with the enemy and chose to continue to move further into the deeper goal. The task of eliminating the Russian army and Luhansk stragglers behind them was handed over to the special forces and infantry. The well-trained latter had a strong morale and had a numerical advantage. The Russian army, which was panicked by the sudden blitzkrieg, naturally found it difficult to close the torn defense again, which led to a humiliating retreat.
0Kharkov and Donbas lost the vast land, which is by no means a unilateral role of the successful battle tactics of the Ukrainian army. The Russian command and front-line officers and soldiers must be blamed.
Although the forests on the eastern wing of Kharkov can provide certain terrain cover for the assembly of troops, it is impossible for the mobilization of multiple brigade-level combat groups to be free of any wind. The sharp turn of the frontline situation obviously proved that the Russian army's reconnaissance satellites, frontline drones and intelligence personnel were in vain before the outbreak of the battle.
Kharkov offensive Russian Aerospace Forces are as disappointing as ever. Ukrainian assault forces have little air support. The Ukrainian Su-27 and MiG-29 fighter jets, which are integrated into the U.S.-made AGM-88 anti-radiation missile, are mainly used to attack the Russian army's radar prevention and control systems rather than ground strikes. Ironically, the Russian Aerospace Army was also unable to block the Ukrainian ground offensive. Due to the poor exchange of air-to-ground information and the lack of precisely guided ammunition, the Russian army's precious fighter jets and support helicopters must more often be shot down by US-made "stinger" shoulder-mounted missiles and German-made "cheetah" self-defense systems, and use low-altitude drops iron bombs and even launch unguided rockets at large elevation angles to complete the strike mission. The inefficiency is beyond words. Images sent back on the battlefield show that in order to cover the Russian retreat, one Su-34 and Su-25 fighter jets each were shot down by the Ukrainian army.
Compared with technical and tactical defects, the most fatal problem of the Russian army at present is its sluggish morale. Russian soldiers who were attacked by the Ukrainian army in a huge depth attack ran in a panic and even abandoned the expensive T-80BV tank, 2S19M2 152mm self-propelled howitzer and BMP-2M infantry fighting vehicle.Under the continuous tightening of the West, it has become very difficult for Russia to re-produce and even repair these armored assault weapons. T-80 tank Russia and Ukraine have long stopped manufacturing.
0 The 20th Russian Army and the elite Guards 1st Tank Army discarded the number of heavy equipment to the Ukrainian army during their retreat. However, this shameful "deployment" of retreating is not only equivalent to the enemy's investment, but also fully exposes the exhausted Russian officers and soldiers' fighting will. Moscow has not declared war on Kiev so far, and cannot mobilize domestic conscripts to join the Ukrainian frontline. The limited number of Russian troops, contract soldiers, have been fighting hard for half a year, and their fighting spirit is no longer the same as before.
So far, the Ukrainian army's offensive showed no sign of stopping. The Russian army retreated and prepared to "reassemble" and welcomed reinforcements. It is obviously far from the time to draw a conclusion whether the dispute between Kharkov-Ijium's prominence will become a turning point in the Russian-Ukrainian war.
