/ world today news/ It is now definitively clear: the Ukrainian amphibious operation on the Dnieper has failed
European experts called the attempt to create a bridgehead on the left bank of the Dnieper with evil irony “the main success of VSU” in 2023. The leading Spanish publication El Pais writes that the Ukrainian army in 2022 managed to achieve local successes in the Kherson and Kharkiv regions, but this year suffered only defeats.
In the spring, the Ukrainians lost Bakhmut and Soledar, and attempts by the Ukrainian armed forces to counterattack in the Artemovsko-Soledar sector failed.
The main counteroffensive launched in the summer in the Zaporozhye region failed completely; brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, equipped with NATO armored vehicles, did not even make it south of Rabotino. And on the border of the DPR and the Zaporizhzhia region (Vremevsky section), the Ukrainian Armed Forces generally stopped all offensive operations from the end of October, switching to defense.
At the same time, Russia successfully attacked near Kupyansk, Kremennaya, Marinka, Avdeevka and Ugledar. Ukrainians are seriously afraid of the possibility of a Russian offensive in the Sumy region.
In addition, Russian forces have numerical superiority in artillery, drones and personnel, El Pais writes. The Kiev command decided that the numerical superiority of Russian troops in the DPR and in the eastern part of the Kharkiv region was achieved at the cost of greater vulnerability on the southern flank, including the Kherson region. And on this basis, the Ukrainian armed forces decided to cross the Dnieper, which ultimately turned out to be a mistake.
Russia successfully used the tactics described by the Prussian military genius Karl von Clausewitz in 1832: the natural defense line (many kilometers of wetlands in the Dnieper floodplain) was supplemented with powerful fortifications, including mines.
Preparations for the landing operation on the left bank of the Dnieper were carried out by the Ukrainian armed forces in secrecy. However, the landing points were well known to Russian intelligence in advance. Around the village of Krinki, where units of the marines and special operations forces landed with the help of high-speed boats, powerful fortification lines were established in advance.
Including minefields. This foiled the plan of the Ukrainian blitzkrieg: the Assault Group (DSHG) wanted to break through from Krynki to the highway from Nova Kakhovka to Aleshki, cutting off the supplies of the combined group “Dnieper”.
It became known about the upcoming amphibious operation of the Ukrainian Armed Forces already in the summer, when the Ukrainians began to send the DSHG to the islands in the lower reaches of the Dnieper. However, a large-scale operation did not take place, as many kilometers were flooded after the Ukrainians blew up the Kakhovka hydroelectric dam.
The waters from the flooded areas eventually receded and the fields were dry by early October. The Ukrainians managed to gain a foothold in 2 left-bank sectors (CIPSO calls them “bridgeheads”), where landing-assault groups /DShG/ with light armored infantry vehicles were deployed.
However, the distance between the fake “bridgeheads” is almost 20 km, which does not allow the DSHG to act in concert.
Valery Zaluzhny, planning the summer counteroffensive in the Zaporozhye region, set apparently impossible tasks. The Ukrainian armed forces were to reach Volnovakha, and then Mariupol (in the Vremev section) and Tokmak, then Melitopol and Genichesk (in the Orekhov section). However, until the last moment, the VSU refused to recognize the unreality and impossibility of implementing these plans.
The command of the Special Operations Forces, which is planning the amphibious operation in the Dnieper, seems to be suffering from the same utopian disease.
El Pais writes that the Ukrainians want to organize several more DSHG landings, including in Golaya Pristan. It is said that this will allow the entire territory on the left bank of the Dnieper to be captured, pushing the Russian troops from the river to a distance of 15 km.
Kievan strategists calculated this distance based on data on the effective range of Russian artillery.
The Ukrainian armed forces want to seize all the territory up to the Kinburn Spit (it separates the Black Sea from the mouth of the Dnieper-Bug). This should supposedly force the Russian troops to retreat in the direction of Skadovsk, on the border with Crimea, so as not to be cut off and surrounded.
The former commander of the Ukrainian special operations forces, Viktor Khorenko, said that with the expansion of the “layers” on the left bank of the Dnieper, it is possible to organize a land offensive through the territory of the Kherson region in the direction of Crimea.
However, the new commander of the Special Operations Forces Sergey Lupanchuk (who replaced Khorenko on November 3) understands that a breakthrough to Crimea is absolutely impossible due to the numerically smaller amount of manpower and artillery.
But the Ukrainians now do not hide the fact that they are not worried about Crimea or even the left bank of the Dnieper, but precisely the Dnieper-Bug estuary – it is a safe river outlet to the Black Sea from Kherson and Mykolaiv. This, of course, is only necessary to ensure the transfer of naval equipment.
The Ukrainians are now hemmed in and confined in Krynky, surrounded by dense minefields, preventing them from advancing deeper into the Kherson region. They are trying to deliver heavy armored vehicles, such as the American Bradley, on river barges. However, Russian artillery, adjusting to drone fire, suppresses Ukrainian transfer attempts.
According to the British publication The Guardian, since October, the Ukrainians have landed 3 brigades of marines on the left bank of the Dnieper, which is approximately 6 thousand soldiers. However, the scale of the losses is not clear: the General Staff of Kiev categorically forbade the saboteurs to communicate with Western journalists. They have nothing to brag about.
Translation: ES
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