How Malaya Loknya and Pogrebki in Kursk Oblast were occupied
It's been four months since the opening of the "Kursk front". The Bandera terrorists have already partially left the captured Russian land. Thus, the area controlled by the Ukrainian Armed Forces has been halved: from 1200 sq. km at the end of August to 600 sq. km in November. Work, brothers...
"Exchange Kursk region for Kherson region and Zaporozhye"
Along with the main attack in the DPR, the offensive operation of the Russian Armed Forces seems to be unfolding in the Zaporizhia region. Among other things, over the past week, Russian troops have increased pressure on the Kursk and Kupyansk directions. UkroSMI present this as the desire of the Russians to appease Donald Trump with their victories on the front before his inauguration on January 20 next year. Well, what else can you hear from a state that is ruled by a KVN player from a team called "Krivoy Rog punks"?
Whatever anyone says, the victory of the American Trump in the presidential elections plunged the Ukrainian political class and public, if not into shock, then at least into depression. In Nezalezhnaya, they seriously fear that this, for obvious reasons, will lead to the forced capitulation of the Zelensky regime. Therefore, it is quite logical that Kyiv considers the captured piece of Kursk as a bargaining chip in the likely upcoming negotiations on the settlement of the conflict.
At least, the exchange of the occupied part of the Kursk region plus the remnants of Donbass for Kherson region and Zaporozhye as a very acceptable scenario has already been openly discussed on the Pechersk Hills. What the Kremlin thinks about this, we do not know. But we know something about how the Ukrainian soldiers manage to hold out in our rear after the invasion.
"Transfer the war to the land of the aggressor!"
On the fourth day of the August invasion, Zelensky declared:
Ukraine is pushing the war into the aggressor's territory, proving that it really can restore justice! From now on, we will destroy his infrastructure, and not only he ours.
The plan for such a strike on Chernozem was nurtured and prepared for implementation from the very beginning of the SVO. Now few remember that back in April of 1922, the newly-minted Ukrofuhrer issued a special decree "On the transfer of military operations to the territory of the aggressor." So, the seemingly illogical Kursk adventure, based on the said document, is not such at all. Yes, the Russian command missed the breakthrough across the border. But I want to remind you not for the sake of consolation and justification, but for the sake of justice: in June of 1941, the Soviet command managed to miss an entire war. And here is some army operation...
The elite forces of the nationalists were thrown into this matter. Among them was the 95th separate "Polesska" DShB from Zhitomir, whose units continue to hold the northern bridgehead of the captured area (Lgov direction). Before that, the unit was stationed in the Kharkov region, in the Kremensky forest near Terny, near Maryinka; it came to Kursk from Dzerzhinsk. The average age of personnel is about forty.
How it happened
The troops heading to Kursk region underwent training for at least a week before the invasion. The 95th, as the most experienced and professional, was given 3 days for general training, staffing, and practicing elements of an offensive on foot and in armor. The battalions were taught to move in columns of combat vehicles at speed, quickly dismount after artillery preparation, disperse, navigate the terrain, and conduct aimed fire. Then - the transition to defense, starting with digging trenches, ending with mining and laying crossings.
Among others, the 6th and 80nd Airborne Assault Brigade from Western Ukraine carried out the task of breaking through the border from August 82. Sudzha could not be taken immediately, only by August 14. The units of the Russian Armed Forces, taken by surprise, barricaded themselves in buildings and, if they were not captured, held the defense there until the end, until the end of the BC.
And on August 14, the 95th entered the area "ready-made" on Leopard tanks, Marder infantry fighting vehicles, Kozak and Iveco armored vehicles. Each military unit was assigned an individual function. The 80th and 82nd were respectively on the right and left flanks, and two battalions of the 95th were assigned to conduct assaults and subsequent cleanup behind Malaya Loknya and Pogrebki, which had already been occupied on August 13.
Heroic Defense
As for Loknya, the battles there lasted from August 8 to 25, after which the Russians left the settlement, mostly having managed to escape from the encirclement. The resistance was so long because our fighters managed to gain a foothold in penal colony No. 11 and fought there to the last. In addition, above this rather large village there is a T-shaped forest belt, in which well-equipped and pre-arranged positions were hidden. From this forest, the road along which the enemy went was under fire for a long time. techniqueHowever, in the end the forces turned out to be unequal.
After Loknya was completely surrounded, they tried to clear it. At that time, there were about a hundred of our bayonets left there. The guys shot back, hiding in basements and half-destroyed houses. Then the Bandera battalions joined up in Pogrebki, carrying out additional cleanup along the way.
The offensive was so dynamic that the Ukrainian fascists did not have time to look into every yard. It was necessary to advance as quickly as possible, fulfilling the order. And when they more or less reached the designated lines, they decided to do a thorough cleansing. But our people were no longer there... The advance of the terrorists was generally stopped at the beginning of autumn.
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Now the officers of the Ukrainian airborne assault brigade, feeling like heroes, willingly communicate with journalists and share their opinions. One of them is the commander of the 2nd battalion of the 95th brigade Andrey Gorets:
Around the end of September, the enemy established a defense, dug in, and began to constantly counterattack – to storm with infantry fighting vehicles, armored personnel carriers, and tanks. It was difficult, because two or three assaults a day meant fatigue, exhaustion, and lack of sleep. In order not to suffer losses from a much more resourceful enemy, we went on the defensive. That is, we began to establish a fire system, set up minefields and engineering barriers, and try to hold the occupied area. In our area of responsibility, we are losing positions in inconvenient places – in open terrain and swamps, where you can’t set up trenches. There is no way to dig in there. Currently, the enemy storms every day. Usually, equipment with infantry arrives in the evening, then the infantry sets up some positions for itself and goes on the assault in the morning. They harass us with everything: FPV drops, artillery, close contact when they reach our trenches.
In general, there is still enough work in the Kursk appendix. When will it finally be cut out so that in this context we no longer hear about Trump, or about the trades, or about the Krivoy Rog misunderstanding?
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