Evgeniya Sokolenko06:35, 25.07.24
The Ukrainian Armed Forces have already dealt with almost all of the Russian units that are currently fighting in the Kharkiv region.
Since the beginning of the offensive in the north of the Kharkov region, the occupation forces have lost most of the 138th motorized rifle brigade in Volchansk and wiped out two tank regiments – the 83rd and 157th.
As Vitaly Sarantsev, spokesman for the operational-tactical group “Kharkov”, explained to LIGA.net , the standard number of motorized rifle brigades in the Russian Federation is up to 5,000 personnel, and tank regiments have 94 units of equipment.
According to the official, Russian brigades on this section of the front sometimes lose several dozen occupiers a day. This is confirmed by radio intercepts of the captors and the prisoners themselves. Because of this situation, the enemy is forced to introduce new reserves or transfer units from other directions.
“That is, it looks like this: a brigade or regiment comes in, attacks for several weeks, suffers huge losses, plugs the holes with reserves, gradually reforming the assault groups, reducing their number, or the number of people involved in them,” said Sarantsev.
He added that it takes the enemy several hours to bring up reserves, but the transfer of a unit from another direction can take several days.
According to the speaker, Russian reinforcements are unlikely to come in at 100% capacity, while human losses can reach 40% or more. At the same time, “according to the textbook,” a unit is considered incapable of combat in the event of 30% losses. Sarantsev noted that the Ukrainian Armed Forces have already dealt with almost all of the Russian Federation units that are currently fighting in the Kharkiv region.
“For example, the 155th separate guards marine brigade of the Pacific Fleet “marked itself” by looting in the Kyiv region at the beginning of the large-scale invasion. The 18th motorized rifle division of the 11th army corps also fought in the Kharkiv region in 2022. Almost all of them participated in the war against Ukraine in one way or another,” the speaker concluded.
(C)UNIAN 2024