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A direct attack on an enemy trapped in a trench is dangerous. A direct attack without artillery support would be suicidal. Russian military units seem to have learned that firsthand this month.

“Why are idiots in uniform still deciding people’s life and death? ” Translated and introduced by Estonian analyst WarTranslatedMailSo, one Russian military blogger is angry. This case is an attack by the 123rd Motorized Sniper Brigade of the Russian Army on the 2nd on the positions of the 10th Mountain Assault Brigade of the Ukrainian Army in the Siversk region in the north-east of Donetsk Oblast, eastern Ukraine.

While the 10th Mountain Assault Brigade waited, the 123rd Motorized Sniper Brigade deployed four battalions and more than 20 vehicles to attack near the town of Birohorivka, Luhansk Oblast, just east of north of Siversk.a large-scale attackI fixed it. Normally, Russian military commanders would have sent in artillery units to attack enemy positions to prevent the Ukrainians from launching an attack. However, for some reason the commander of the 123rd Motorized Sniper Brigade did not.

“Unprepared and unsupported, the attack was doomed to failure,” lamented the blogger. The 10th Mountain Assault Brigade was able to intercept the BMP infantry fighting vehicles approaching the 123rd Motorized Sniper Brigade and additional heavily armored armored tanks, commonly known as “turtle tanks,” with Ukrainian-made Stufna-P anti-tank missiles and destroyed one after another by bomb-laden drones.The 10th Mountain Assault Brigade destroyed at least 6 tanks and 9 BMPs.report.

The 10th Mountain Assault Group has confirmed that there are at least 19 Russian casualties and 23 wounded, and the number of casualties could rise significantly. “Our soldiers suffered heavy losses to tanks and infantry fighting vehicles, many soldiers were killed and many others were wounded,” the blogger wrote.

A leader whose mistakes go unpunished

Five days after the failed attack, wounded soldiers from the 123rd Motor Rifle Brigade lay in a nearby wooded area, waiting for allies to evacuate them, but no sign of help was coming . “Three years into Special Military Operations (Russia’s name for a war of aggression in Ukraine), commanders continue to lie, make mistakes and disregard the lives of their troops,” said the blogger strongly.

One year after the Russian military launched a powerful offensive across its nearly 800-mile front, it is making progress on several key offensive axes. However, they have not made much progress on the axis from Birohorivka to Buimka, a suburb south of Sibelsk, and have only made a few kilometers at most.

Judging from the attack on the 2nd, sloppy leadership may be the main reason for the stagnation of the Russian army in this regard. There is little hope that the command of the 123rd Motorized Sniper Brigade will improve in the future. The same blogger points out that leaders are not “afraid of punishment” because they are not responsible for their mistakes.

(Forbes.com Original text)