In an act that some analysts describe as “demential”, the Russian Air Force launched approximately 250 KAB planning pumps About the only one Tree line near Andriivkka, in Sumi, Ukraine Oblast. This unprecedented air attack, directed against a small forest of only 3 kilometers in length, could have turned that section of vegetation into the Most more bombarded place on the planet During that moment.
However, the result was void. The Russian units that aviation tried to support were finally defeated and forced to retire. It was the Motorized rifle regiments 22 and 30 and the Marines Brigade 40who were “really fighting near Kindravativeka,” says the military analyst Mocha.
The assault was part of a Russian counterattack started after the Ukrainian withdrawal from Kursk’s bib In mid -March, which ended a seven -month Ukrainian incursion. However, The Russians crossed Sumi without their armored vehiclesbetting on a Light infantry offensive and motorcycles.
Armored vehicle care
This tactic, adopted after Loss of more than 20,000 armored vehicleshas sought to preserve the few remaining vehicles at the cost of sending more soldiers on foot.
“The change to infantry tactics and motorcycles preserves a decline resource by replacing it with an abundant resource,” says Moklasen. With Cash equivalent to three years of salaryKremlin has maintained a constant flow of new recruits: 30,000 soldiers per monthenough to replace the monthly losses estimated in the same number.
But the tactical disadvantage of this strategy was exposed in Sumi. “Certainly, It becomes much harder to achieve any type of … let’s say a great and beautiful advance“explains the Ukrainian-American correspondent David Kirichenko.
Ukrainian forces, although limited to infantry, had Western combat vehicles (Marder Germans and Stryker and Bradley American) operated by the Air Assault Brigades 79 and 95and the Assault Regiment 225. These units successfully flanked the dismembered Russian regiments near Kindrativka.
Russia maintains significant aerial superioritywith ten times more aircraft than Ukraine. For years, he has launched about 100 kab daily along the 1,100 km of the front. But in recent weeks, a disproportionate part of these pumps has been thrown on that pco and isolated forest in Sumi.
Muklasen believes that the amount of ammunition used was “exorbitant” And it is not known with certainty if any bomb reached value objectives. Ukrainian electronic interference could have diverted many of them.
