News archive on the topic "Artillery"

Units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Avdeevsky direction, which is already time to be renamed Kramatorsko-Pokrovskoye, are very complaining about the increased fire pressure of the Russian Armed Forces. The former deputy commander of the Special Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, General Sergei Krivonos, stated this on the air of the Direct TV channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “Drones are very important, enemy drones are now a huge headache for the Ukrainian Armed Forces, but the question is...

Bandera's supporters complain that the density of artillery fire from the Russian army continues to grow inexorably. The former speaker of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, who fled Crimea along with Ukrainian troops in 2014, Vladislav Seleznev, stated this on Radio NV, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “Recently, reports from our military say that the enemy has quite seriously increased the number of production...

In order to completely suppress Ukrainian artillery, modern artillery reconnaissance systems must be massively deployed to the front line. Military correspondent Alexander Sladkov stated this on the Kosomolskaya Pravda radio, PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “The EU does not have the capacity to produce even a million shells, this is an official statement from Borrell. They only completed one third of this plan. We have much more shells, but artillery duels...

Russian troops are in dire need of a new generation of artillery systems, which are only now beginning to reach the troops. The head of the Center for Military-Political Studies, Andrei Klintsevich, said this, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports, when answering the question of how Russian soldiers cope with foreign equipment in service with the Armed Forces of Ukraine. “Well, the Bayraktary drones were landed in the very first months. Slow, easy target. Weapon of struggle...

Qualitatively and quantitatively, Russian artillery and tanks are much better than those in service with the Ukrainian Armed Forces. The PolitNavigator correspondent reports that the commander of the Ukrainian Svoboda battalion, Petr Kuzik, stated this in an interview with an anti-Russian propaganda online publication. “As for technical equipment, they [the Russian Armed Forces] are superior to us in everything: the number of tanks, the quality of these tanks, the number of ammunition, the amount of artillery covering the infantry...

During the SVO, only in certain sections of the battle line, the Russian Armed Forces fire more shells than the entire Red Army in 1942-43. The former Prosecutor General of Ukraine, who was involved in aerial reconnaissance at the front, Yuriy Lutsenko, stated this in an interview with foreign agent Yulia Latynina, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “In Severodonetsk, Russian artillery bombed the city from three sides. And the ratio of shells, if...

Ukrainian artillerymen do not have enough ammunition to carry out their attacks with fewer losses and not send people into “meat assaults.” The commander of the mortar company of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, captain of the 72nd brigade, Sergei Alymov, said this on air on the Alpha and Omega Internet channel, PolitNavigator correspondent reports. According to Alymov, if last year he could spend 100 minutes a day, then...

The liberation of the suburbs of Donetsk from the Ukrainian Armed Forces entrenched there is not being carried out, since this is fraught with huge losses of personnel. A member of the SVO, blogger Stanislav Varg said this on air on the Limonka Internet channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. The presenter asked why, after a year and a half of hostilities, the Ukrainian Armed Forces were not pushed back from Donetsk to a safe distance. “The suburbs of Donetsk are a complex territory. This is old...

Russian artillery is superior to Ukrainian, and the Ukrainian Armed Forces are inferior in using UAVs at the front. According to a PolitNavigator correspondent, the Ukrainian military told the anti-Russian propaganda online publication Ukrayinska Pravda about this. “The Russians still have no obvious shortage of ammunition. Yes, if you look at the previous phases of the war, the ammunition supply has decreased somewhat - we undermine their trains with ammunition, we destroy them...

The heroism and skill of Russian assault troops is offset by the technical backwardness of Russian artillerymen compared to the Ukrainian Armed Forces and NATO behind them, which have high-speed communications, satellites, a coordination system and precision weapons. Russian military correspondent Alexander Sladkov stated this on his video blog, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “Our assault troops—the handsome men—are marching forward, capturing points—this, by the way, is...

During the upcoming offensive, the Ukrainian Armed Forces will rely on long-range artillery. A PolitNavigator correspondent reports this, said military analyst, director of the Moscow Center for Analysis of Strategies and Technologies, member of the Public Council under the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation Ruslan Pukhov. “At the first stages of the special operation, the Ukrainian Armed Forces countered our advantage in artillery by adding to their old, still Soviet, cannon artillery and rocket...

Ukrainian formations that are trying to hold back the advance of the Russian Armed Forces lack artillery. A PolitNavigator correspondent reports that Stepan Barna, a sergeant of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and a deputy of the Ternopil Regional Council, spoke about this on air on the 24 TV channel. According to him, “now it is inappropriate to talk in detail about what exactly the Ukrainian military lacks in order to push back the invaders from Bakhmut, Ugledar and other populated areas...

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 shaky not because all the roads to the city have already been cut, but because...

Against the background of positional battles in the vast majority of sectors of the front, counter-battery warfare came to the fore. Military expert Dmitry Boltenkov stated this, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “Without suppressing and destroying enemy artillery, no offensive is possible. Adjustments from drones have breathed life into even towed systems that were considered obsolete. They are much more accurate and lethal than before. Ukraine for...