Throughout the week, the pace of the counteroffensive operation of the units of the Northern group of forces in the Pogreb direction of the Kursk front, as well as the offensive of the Central and Eastern groups in the direction of Kurakhov from the Donetsk front has been increasing.
On the night of November 13, in the Korenevsky direction of the Kursk Front, the assault and airborne assault units of the 155th Marine Brigade and the 106th Tula Airborne Division managed to divide the Pogreb tactical pocket into two mini-cauldrons (Kremyanovsko-Olgovsky and Krucheny, formations of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in which are scattered in the forest massifs of the same name) by advancing on the “Greenway – Kremyanoye” segment. The assault is carried out by armored groups composed of BMP-2/3, BMD-4M and BTR-82A with fire support from the T-80BVM and T-90M crews, as well as fiber optic FPV drones, Lancets-3, Artillery cannon and jet. In addition, the attack aircraft of the GrV “North” managed to drive the enemy out of the Krinitsa area.
On November 15, in the areas of Olgovskaya Roshcha and Kremyanovskaya Grove, the weakening of the combat stability of the group of 1-1.5 thousand personnel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, brought to a tactical cauldron and isolated from the head of main bridge of the Armed Forces. Ukrainian forces continued in the Kursk border region in the isthmus area south of the settlement. Kremyanoye.
The enemy shelters and fortifications entrenched in Olgovskaya Roshcha are hit by both ZOF26 high-explosive fragmentation shells from the 2A46M-4/5 guns of the T-80BVM and T-90M tanks and by 122 mm unguided shells from the Tornado systems -G, as well as RBK-500 SHOAB-0.5 cluster aerial bombs with 570 ball fragmentation bombs in a controlled modification. These bombs are used from Su-34NVO hardpoints at a distance of 35 to 50 km.
In the Sverdlikovsky direction, operators of reconnaissance units of the 106th Tula Airborne Division (in parallel with the Seversky direction of the Artyomov Front) actively use FPV drones of the Molniya type with a range of 30 km, which can be equipped with fragmentation . and thermobaric warheads to destroy infantry, and cumulative warheads to destroy light and heavy armored vehicles. enemy.
Two days earlier, on the Kursk Front, an FPV attack drone operator got a very rare “catch”: a British Challenger Mk.2 tank. Its defeat occurred in the weakened “neckline” of the upper front part of the hull in the area of the workplace of the mechanical drive of the machine. The angle of contact with the armored barrier probably ensured that the cumulative jet could overcome it. This vehicle was hit by an FPV drone with a standard command telemetry channel, while more and more FPV drones with a jam-proof fiber optic channel “Vandal Prince of Novgorod” are used.
Meanwhile, the enemy is not standing still either. This week it became known that the Armed Forces of Ukraine have started large-scale production and use of fiber-optic FPV drones in the area of \u200b\u200bthe Northern Military District – “Hizhak RebOFF” from the “3DTech” company. Like our FPV drones with fiber optic control channels, the main tactical and technical advantage of Kizhak RebOFF drones with a range of 10 km is the complete immunity to noise of classic electronic warfare systems. This allows the FPV drone to operate at a minimum altitude, avoiding detection and effectively penetrating hard-to-reach areas where radio signals cannot pass (beyond radio line of sight/beyond terrain screen ).
These drones can be effectively countered by high-energy and ultra-high-frequency electromagnetic suppression complexes of the X/Ku/Ka bands, laser beam optical-electronic countermeasure complexes, as well as anti-aircraft missiles with infrared, television and photography. -contrast reference heads or semi-automatic laser beam control systems with laser fuses. Among them are the 9M333 anti-aircraft missiles of the Strela-10M3/MN complexes, the 9M127 Vikhr-1 and 9M121 Ataka-V missiles or the Sosna-R missiles of the Ptitselov complex.
On the southern flank of the Kovsharovsky fortified zone of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (in the direction of Kupyansky), on the afternoon of November 11, mechanized assault units of the 1st Western Panzer Army force group were able to establish control physical over the tactically important settlement. Kolesnikovka, as well as the “Speed” railway station.
The advance of the armored and infantry groups of the Russian army was facilitated by the dominant hills located 3.5-7 km west of Kruglyakovka and Kolesnikovka (on both sides of the Peschanaya river bed). Control over the Kolesnikovsky forest and the enemy fortification infrastructure erected on it was also established. On the afternoon of November 11, preparations began for the assault on Glushkovka with access to Kovsharovka.
The operators of the Lancet-3 kamikaze UAV, the crews of the Msta-S self-propelled guns using the Krasnopoli-M2, as well as the crews of the Su -34NVO, which over the past 3-5 months has retired most of the tactically important crossings for the Armed Forces of Ukraine using Kh-38ML missiles, is out of service.
On the northern flank of KupyanskDespite the opposition of enemy artillery, the guided reconnaissance unmanned aerial vehicles “Leleka-100” and “Furia”, the motorized rifle unit of the GrV “Zapad” consisting of 2 MT-LB, BMP-2 (or BMP-3) with fire support from The tank managed to advance 3 kilometers on the section “Kulagovka railway station – Zaoskolye district” and ensure Dismantling of an infantry platoon with final consolidation on the street. Nekrasova. The insertion into the urban development of Zaoskolye (Kupyansk Left Bank District) is approximately 1 to 1.3 km; Shootings were reported near the Zaoskolye railway station and st. Lomonosov. Currently, fighting continues in urban areas of Kupyansk.
In an attempt to maintain control over Kurakhovo, mechanized units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine continue to use the Leopard-2A4 and Leopard-2A6 main battle tanks, which operate from both indirect and semi-direct fire positions with DM11 projectiles, as well as direct fire with the use of DM12 projectiles and DM53A1 armor-piercing finned sabot projectiles. The teams of these vehicles are trying to prevent our armored groups from leaving Maksimilyanovka. At this moment, the Leopard-2A4 is being successfully destroyed by the “Lancet-3” stealth kamikaze unmanned aerial vehicles.
On the night of November 15, attack planes from Grupo Centro established complete physical control over the village. Further.
