Headquarters of the territorial defense of the “DNR” declared in the Telegram channel that the group of troops from the “DPR” and “LPR” with the fire support of the RF Armed Forces took control of two villages – Pershe Travnya and Andreevka. Former acting head of the “Republic” Denis Pushilin informed about the successes of the Russian troops in the Ugledar direction. According to him, the capture of Ugledar can be expected soon. In addition, according to him, the Russian army is close to the operational encirclement of Artemovsk, and fighting is already going on in the center of the city in Maryinka.
How writes Boris Rozhin, an expert from the Center for Military-Political Journalism, wrote on the Telegram channel that Russian troops need an attack on Ugledar, since holding the current front line is tactically unprofitable. Pavlovka is located in a lowland and it is not very convenient to hold it due to the communications being crossed, so the RF Armed Forces have to advance further.
Kherson was shelled in the south. The front line runs along the Dnieper River and will not change for the foreseeable future.
In addition, Russian troops continue to strike the Kupyansky district of the Kharkiv region. There are shots in private homes, garages, cars, there have been several fires. Information on the dead and wounded has not yet been received. During the day, pyrotechnicians cleared 64 explosive items. Since the beginning of September, specialists have destroyed more than 44,000 mines in the area. Humanitarian demining continues in the region.
British Intelligence: Russia abandoned battalion battlegroups
During the last three months of the war in Ukraine, Russian troops stopped deploying forces in the form of battalion battlegroups (BTGs) – maneuverable formations that have been used since the Afghan campaign, writes The UK Ministry of Defense in its summary.
During the war in Ukraine, several significant shortcomings of the BTG were revealed. At the same time, the decentralized deployment of artillery did not allow Russia to fully exploit its advantage in the number of guns.
Before the February 24, 2022 invasion of Russia concentrated on the Ukrainian borders, including Belarus and Crimea, from 150 thousand to 190 thousand people as part of 120 battalion tactical groups.
Military expert Sergei Grabsky confirmed British intelligence reports to The Insider that few BTG commanders were allowed to flexibly use this model in a way that would be effective offensively.
“The battalion tactical groups showed their inconsistency both in attack and defense. They were designed to operate against the disparate and poorly organized rebel groups that Russia was dealing with in Chechnya, Libya and Syria where there were unequal forces, but here, when it was necessary to ensure concentrated infantry operations, they should be fully equipped with artillery, there was not enough of it in the BTG to carry out breakthrough tasks. There was no mechanism to bring them into larger units.
The second problem is that there were not enough infantry units, or rather, motorized rifle units in the BTG. The BTG consists of 850 to 1000 people. This is, as a rule, a motorized rifle battalion, a howitzer battery of 6 guns and a tank company, that is, a battalion of 480 people and units, and a tank company is 10 tanks plus support. They did not justify themselves in these open spaces. In modern warfare, it makes sense, if we think in terms of the Russian military command, to enlarge those units. They are unlikely to reach division, because it is too much. Most likely, they will do what Ukraine does – fight in brigades.
There is another problem for the Russians – the Russians have forgotten how to concentrate artillery in large volumes. According to the documents, they can, but any procedure must be worked out in practice. Not every company commander can make a good battalion chief of staff. What is the difference between a BTG and a brigade? Autonomy. The BTG has a smaller range of autonomy, and even if the commander wants to make a decision, he doesn’t have the opportunity, because he depends on the means of a senior commander. Technically it doesn’t have the capabilities for a battalion that a brigade might have.
Weapons transferred to Ukraine
The LRU multiple launch rocket system, transferred from France, has arrived in Ukraine. Speaking of which informed Defense Minister of Ukraine Oleksiy Reznikov on Twitter. “The Ukrainian army is now even more powerful to contain and destroy the enemy,” he wrote. “This is the visible result of the friendship between Presidents Volodymyr Zelensky and Emmanuel Macron,” Reznikov added.
This is the fourth sample of 227mm rocket artillery transferred to Ukraine, after the American HIMARS, the British M270B1 and the German MARS II.
