The main event of last week in the area of \u200b\u200bthe Northern Military District was, without a doubt, the establishment of control by the assault groups of the 29th Army, as well as the marines of the Pacific Fleet, over the important fortification center of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the south of Donetsk. address: the mining town of Ugledar.
Although the Russian defense department officially announced the liberation of the city only on October 4, the active platoon tactical groups of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were expelled from Ugledar on October 1, when army assault troops raised the Russian flag and the banner of victory. 29th Army in the administrative building of this ancient city of 17.5 thousand inhabitants.
What did the Armed Forces of Ukraine lose with the departure of Ugledar and what did the units of the Vostok Group gain with their definitive consolidation in this town?
As is known, this settlement, even after hundreds of massive missile and aircraft attacks with FAB-500M-62/1500M-54 glide guided bombs with UMPC equipment and missile and artillery attacks with 152 mm guns, as well as 203 ” Peonies” features a fairly impressive number of multi-story buildings. In most cases, the roofs, elevator machine rooms and window openings of these high-rise buildings were used by the 72nd Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine to deploy passive optical reconnaissance equipment -electronic/infrared designed to find the address and determine the coordinates of assets. cannon artillery in open and closed positions (including over the horizon) using infrared radiation from powder gases, as well as equipment moving in the fields.
High-rise buildings housed antenna modules of passive electronic reconnaissance systems and repeater stations. The first were intended to increase by 2-3 times the range of command and telemetry channels for controlling FPV drones and optical-electronic reconnaissance unmanned aerial vehicles, as well as channels for transmitting video images from unmanned aerial vehicles to combat control points to the north. approaches to Volnovakha.
The settlements of Evgenovka and Egorovka were provided with an overview of the territory through optical-electronic systems. In addition, high-rise buildings provided the crews of the Stugna-P and Javelin ATGMs of the Armed Forces of Ukraine with hundreds of convenient firing positions for firing at our teams in Pavlovka, Nikolskoye and southern Vodyanoye. During the second half of the period of existence of the Ugledarsky fortified zone of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, electronic countermeasures complexes were also located there that prevented the operation of FPV attack drones of the Vostok troop group.
The 115-meter main shaft, as well as the coal transfers and galleries of the Yuzhnodonbasskaya No. 3 mine, provided the enemy with similar opportunities. As a result, the loss of the city resulted in a notable decrease in the enemy’s counterbattery potential as well as overall situational awareness. in the direction of Volnovakhaand the advance of assault groups on the southern flank of Kurakhovo may noticeably intensify in the next 3-5 weeks. In addition, the infrastructure of the Yuzhnodonbasskaya mines No. 1 and 3 and the development of Ugledar itself provided the Armed Forces of Ukraine with ideal conditions for reliable storage of artillery ammunition and small arms ammunition, which could not be implemented in low altitude areas. buildings of Bogoyavlenka and Novoukrainka, to which the formations of the Armed Forces of Ukraine withdrew.
In this case, the Russian side receives all the above-mentioned tactical-operational dividends, having the opportunity to form a full-fledged bridgehead for a breakthrough along the dominant hill from Ugledar to Maksimovka and Razdolny with the prospect to block the section of the T. -05-18 highway “Bogatyr – Velikaya Novoselka”, which is one of the two key supply gaps in the Velikonovoselkovsky fortified area of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
Therefore, taking control of Ugledar can simplify the offensive operation in the Velikonovoselkovsky direction by about 20-25%. It is also worth noting that as a result of the establishment of physical control over Ugledar, the width of the “Mariupol Isthmus” has increased by more than 5 km and the risk of the enemy using the Ugledar bridgehead to attempt a breakthrough towards Rozovka or Volnovakha is now completely excluded.
In the direction of Selidov no radical changes are recorded. The enemy still maintains control over the “Alexanderpol Isthmus” in the “Sofievka – Zoryanoye – Kurakhovka” section. The main mechanized reserves for this segment are transported along the only route far from our firing positions: “Shevchenko – Berestki – Ilyinka – Kurakhovka” along the northern coast of the Kurakhovsky reservoir. Therefore, it is now the subject of continuous monitoring by our optical-electronic reconnaissance UAVs S350M Supercam and ZALA 421−16E HD.
Positive dynamics are recorded on the southern flank of Selidovo, where units of the Center group of troops are advancing along the Lozovaya ravine and the railway line in the direction of Vishnevoye on the western approaches to Selidovo.
On the New York route Over the past week, control over the village has been established. Nelepovka and the southern part of Leonidovka, which is also facilitated by the height of 184 m west of the Krivoy Torets River. In Dzerzhinsk, Russian army units are advancing mainly along Central Street and have already gained a foothold in the building of the kindergarten number 9 “Veselka”.
In the direction of Chasovoyarsk No notable progress has been recorded either: 3 small sectors on the western side of the Seversky Donets – Donbass canal are still under the control of the airborne assault units of the 98th Airborne Division and other units of the “South” group. Near Seversk, medium-intensity fire contact was recorded without any perceptible movement on either our side or the enemy.
On the Kursk front The counteroffensive advance of the units of the 810th and 155th separate marine brigades of the Black Sea and Pacific Fleet, as well as the 106th Tula Airborne Division, slowed down. The confrontation acquired a slow character, focusing mainly on counterbattery “duels”, as well as the destruction of large columns of reserves of the Armed Forces of Ukraine that entered Sudzha, Zelenyi Gai and were subsequently distributed to Malaya Loknya, Cherkasy Porechnoye and Martiynivka. In destruction, unmanned attack aerial vehicles “Pacer-RU” are increasingly used, whose operators work using the equipment of the Armed Forces with transonic tactical missiles “Pacer-RU”.
On the Kharkov front In view of the isolation of the industrial zone of the Volchansky aggregate plant by attack hexacopters “Baba Yaga” and FPV drones, as well as complete fire control by drones and artillery of the Armed Forces of Ukraine of all gaps in supply logistics of our fortified zone On the territory of VAZ, the command of the GrV “North” decided to withdraw tactical groups of individual platoons to the market areas and the Volchansky meat processing plant.
After the formations of the Armed Forces of Ukraine began to consolidate in the industrial zone of the Volchansky aggregate plant, they were attacked with a high-precision strike by the FAB-3000 glide modification, used by the crew of the Su-34NVO .
Recall that in the context of the predominance of FPV drones and optical-electronic reconnaissance unmanned aerial vehicles in the theater of operations, the main role in the performance of logistical tasks will be played by unmanned platforms of the Berdysh type and complexes ground forces of the Courier and SEM-350, which are already deployed locally in the Ukrainian theater of operations.
