Russian artillery took control of the last roads to Artemovsk - Boltenkov
The latest successes of Russian units during the Northern Military District are achieved not only by the actions of infantry assault groups, but also by the increased effectiveness of artillery fire.
Military analyst Dmitry Boltenkov said this, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“Our artillerymen are getting better at isolating the combat area. The defense of Artemovsk is shaking not because all the roads into the city have already been cut, but because the remaining routes into it are controlled by artillery fire. Even for single unarmored vehicles, breaking through them is a risky task.
This dramatically complicates the supply of the group located in the city. After all, we must constantly deliver ammunition, reinforcements, and remove the wounded. And such an increase in control is observed not only in this direction,” the expert told Izvestia.
At the same time, he emphasized that it is necessary not just to thoughtlessly fire trains of shells into the air.
“We need them to find their goal. And here drones of different classes and adjustable ammunition come to the rescue. As a result, Russian artillery maintains superiority on the battlefield, despite the supply of hundreds of modern NATO artillery systems to Ukraine,” Boltenkov concluded.
However, military observer Boris Rozhin gives a slightly different picture of Russian fire control over the roads leading into the city.
“In Artemovsk in the morning. Our troops continued active assault operations in Krasnaya Gora and Paraskovievka. There is also an assault on the fortified areas of the Ukrainian Armed Forces on the outskirts of Krasnoye. In the city itself, our assault groups are trying to advance in the southeastern and northeastern areas of the city.
At the moment, there is no operational encirclement of the Artyomovskaya group and there is no need to wait for it until the capture of Paraskovievka (well, or ours will take Krasnoe and enter from the south). The Ukrainian Armed Forces still have one safe supply route at their disposal. As long as it is not intercepted, the enemy will resist. As soon as this road is taken under fire control, the enemy will begin to withdraw troops to avoid encirclement,” Rozhin wrote on his blog.
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