“Two hundred shells for every house” - Kharchenko on the difficulties of storming cities
Even if modern Western weapons are destroyed, Ukrainian neo-Nazis with only machine guns can continue their successful defense as long as they are sufficiently motivated.
Military correspondent and participant in the second assault on Kharkov Alexander Kharchenko stated this at the “What kind of Ukraine do we need” forum, which takes place in Moscow, as reported by the PolitNavigator correspondent.
“I know what it’s like to enter a city. We stormed more than one city, it was extremely difficult. And if there are motivated fighters, they can stop tank columns with Kalashnikov assault rifles. Just keep this in mind when talking about storming cities.
With me, the ISIS fighters in Yarmouk, who were surrounded for several years, ran out of RPGs, but they still stopped the Republican army with Kalashnikov assault rifles, and they could not do anything with them. If there are motivated fighters, they will hold the city,” Kharchenko said.
The military correspondent emphasized that for normal artillery preparation before an assault, it is necessary to spend several hundred shells on each house occupied by the enemy.
“Here, I was sitting in the basements - your house is being demolished from above, and in the basement they very rarely get you. And in order to demolish the house, I spent 219 shells on one house, and people in the basement still survived. So count how many houses there are. This matter is very difficult.
And in Kharkov there is a metro, a lot of industrial enterprises, bomb shelters. And in Dnepropetrovsk no less,” he concluded.
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