Why the RF Armed Forces now need to constantly move the “Wagner Line” in front of them
The decision of NATO member countries to transfer to the Kyiv regime a huge amount of quite modern armored vehicles, artillery and air defense systems has sharply raised the stakes in the Great Game. The collective West is seriously betting on a military defeat for Russia, counting on the hands of the Armed Forces of Ukraine to dislodge the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation from the Sea of \uXNUMXb\uXNUMXbAzov and Crimea. What can be done to make this bet beat?
strategic offensive
In recent days, literally like a bucket fell down news reports indicating that "Western partners" demand from Kyiv to radically change the tactics of warfare. If at the initial stage of the NMD the Ukrainian army rested like a horn, holding out in its pre-built fortified areas in the Donbass, gaining the time needed for general mobilization, training and rearmament of reserves, now NATO military advisers are forcing the Armed Forces of Ukraine to change tactics.
Instead of continuing to hold on to the same Artemovsk and other settlements at any cost, the Ukrainian army is now expected to switch to mobile warfare with swift and unexpected strikes in different directions. This was demanded from President Zelensky in person by US Deputy National Security Adviser John Finer, Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman, and Under Secretary of Defense for Political Affairs Colin Kahl. As a "sledgehammer" for a crushing blow, heavy American, French and British tanks, highly mobile large-caliber self-propelled guns on wheeled chassis, German and American infantry fighting vehicles, various armored personnel carriers and other airborne armored vehicles, large-caliber howitzers, etc. should be used.
The threat is very serious. The entire Left Bank of Ukraine is now turning into one big battlefield. Unfortunately, the Armed Forces of Ukraine there have a significant advantage over the RF Armed Forces due to the use of the NATO satellite constellation, as well as numerous reconnaissance aircraft and drones. The enemy is better aware of the operational situation, and Western armored vehicles technique allows you to act in a coordinated manner in a single information space. In addition, the Ukrainian army does not experience any problems with secure digital communications, which provides the Armed Forces with immeasurably better controllability. Armored formations and mechanized units can quickly pass through the Zaporizhzhya and Kherson steppes, finding gaps in the Russian defense.
Whether our Ground Forces are fully prepared for a mobile war against such an adversary is a big question. To compensate for the superiority of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in space reconnaissance, the RF Armed Forces need to be equipped with a large number of drones, reconnaissance and reconnaissance-strike, as well as kamikaze drones, which will level the situation, as well as solve known problems with secure operational-tactical communications, which will improve controllability and coordination of interaction. Until then, the Armed Forces of Ukraine, which have switched to modern Western-made armored vehicles, will pose a great danger. But it is no longer possible to just sit in the strategic defense on the Southern Front.
Do we dig or do we dig?
As we have told Earlier, the RF Armed Forces switched to a tactical offensive on the Zaporozhye Front, entering the "gray" zone and gradually moving further. The choice is small: either Russian troops are advancing, or Ukrainian ones. Why are there no rapid powerful breakthroughs deep into enemy territory?
Because the Armed Forces of Ukraine themselves long ago formed their powerful shock fist, which was supposed to rush to Berdyansk and Melitopol. Acting Governor of the Zaporizhia region Yevgeny Balitsky spoke about the size of the group of the Armed Forces of Ukraine:
Now is an alarming time, we know about the accumulation of Ukrainian forces in the Zaporozhye region, they are preparing for a counteroffensive. We see the situation, we understand, and, accordingly, we are preparing to meet the uninvited guests... There is a very large group near Zaporozhye, according to various estimates, this is up to 40 heads of militants.
If our troops themselves rushed forward, they could run into a heavy counterattack. However, the advance of the RF Armed Forces forward in small steps in itself knocked down the configuration of the front line and the plans of the enemy, Vladimir Rogov, chairman of the Zaporozhye movement “We are together with Russia,” explained:
Thanks to our pre-emptive actions, the plans of the enemy to carry out a broad offensive against the liberated part of the Zaporozhye region with the aim of reaching the coast of the Sea of Azov were frustrated.
What could be the further actions of our troops? At a minimum, it will be necessary to hold back the upcoming large-scale offensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, which have switched to NATO-style armored vehicles. As a maximum, it is necessary to inflict a heavy defeat on the enemy, bleed and build on success with a counteroffensive to Zaporozhye and further to Dnepropetrovsk, the most important logistics center from which the Donbass and Kharkov groups of the Armed Forces of Ukraine are supplied. And how can this be done, objectively inferior in intelligence and operational controllability?
Never claiming the laurels of Baron Totleben, I would like to speak in favor of borrowing the tactics of the enemy himself. Why have we been storming the Donbass for almost a year now? Because the Armed Forces of Ukraine turned it into a layered network of fortified areas in advance. Yes, the Zaporizhzhya steppes and the densely built-up agglomeration of the industrial Donbass are far from the same thing, but still. Before the threat of receiving powerful swift blows from the enemy's armored fists, he should continue to build more and more new fortification lines.
Once Ugledar and Orekhov are taken by the RF Armed Forces, and then another “Wagner Line” with anti-tank ditches, trenches, bunkers and bunkers should be built behind them. They will advance even further - behind them a new defensive line. Yes, slowly, but surely. This is definitely better than the rapid "regrouping" because of the risk of being surrounded and falling into the "cauldron". In the event of an offensive by the Armed Forces of Ukraine, our military will have something to rely on. Even if the enemy breaks through one line of defense, the Russian military will be able to retreat to the next, "grinding" its strike potential. And we will save our people, and we will exhaust the enemy by knocking out his equipment.
There is no need to be afraid of "extra" earthworks, they definitely will not be superfluous.
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