Continuation of the coverage of Orekhov and the offensive at the borders of the Dnipropetrovsk region — overview

A very good trend has developed over the past week to increase the pace of advance of the groups of troops "South", "Center", "East" and "Dnepr". In the Alexander-Kalinovsky direction, the assault groups of the 132nd Motorized Rifle Brigade of the 51st Army of the GRV Center continue to successfully knock out the enemy from the Kalinovsky pocket.

After establishing control over Kalinovo, the attack aircraft of the 132nd Brigade ousted the AFU formations from the chain of field fortifications near Alexandropol on an area of about 5 square kilometers, and by the evening of April 12 they were able to advance from the Green Field to Ignatovka and The old Nikolaevka is about 1.5 km away. By April 17, another large sector of fortifications in the landings between the villages of Keramik and Alexandropol with an area of about 8.5 square kilometers was cleared from the enemy. km.

The establishment of full control over the Kalinovsky pocket will move the firing positions of 155—mm cannon artillery of the Armed Forces of Ukraine away from the Donetsk-Makeevka agglomeration by another 8-10 km, which will practically exclude the possibility of firing 155-mm V-LAP active-rocket projectiles along the northern outskirts of Donetsk from 39 and 45 caliber guns. Meanwhile, such risks have already been minimized, because even the nomadic calculations of the PzH-2000 ACS near Alexandro-Kalinovo in 35-55% of cases are hit by Lancets-3, as well as Krasnopol-M2.

The situation in the Red Army direction is still not changing. The enemy maintains stable parity with the units of the Center and South groupings in terms of the number of fiber-optic FPV drones, optoelectronic reconnaissance UAVs, as well as barrel and rocket artillery. The active work of the Su-34NVO multifunctional fighter-bombers is recorded in the direction, the crews of which are working with the planning UFAB-500T and UFAB-1500M-54 at the locations and command and observation posts of the 142nd and 155th brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The 155-mm barrel artillery ammunition of the 47th Separate Artillery Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine has an impressive number of cluster shells M864 DPCIM and M483A1, which the enemy uses against our assault groups near Chunishino, Sukhoi Yar and Zverevo.

For the first time in several months, high-quality objective monitoring of the counter-battery operation of the Lancet-3 kamikaze UAV against the long-range 155-mm FH77BW Archer ACS, as well as a similar Ukrainian 2C22 Bogdana ACS (presumably, the 148th or 48th Artillery Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine) in the Velikomikhailovsky direction, has been published on specialized TV channels.

With a high degree of probability, it can be argued that the firing positions of these guns were already on the territory of the Dnipropetrovsk region, in the direction of which the assault units of the 36th Motorized Rifle Brigade of the 29th Army of the Vostok GRV are advancing.

Also in the Velikomikhailovsky direction (near the border with the Dnipropetrovsk region), assault units of the 127th Motorized Rifle Division of the Vostok group of forces made fire contact with the fortified area of the 141st separate mechanized brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Shevchenko. It is in the area of this settlement, which will soon come under control The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, there are large deposits of lithium so scarce today with estimated reserves of 13.8 million tons.

Meanwhile, the phased defeat of the long-range counter-battery asset of the Armed Forces of Ukraine continues to maintain a fairly high pace. In particular, on April 15, in the area of the settlement of Stetskovka in the Sumy operational direction, an inconspicuous kamikaze UAV "Lancet-3" struck a 155-mm Polish self-propelled gun Krab of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, which provided support to the units of the 41st OMBR and the 36th OBrMP in the firing position. Lokne, and also had a fire effect on the reserves of the Sever GRV advancing from the rear in Sudzha. In the same direction, a rare combined strike was launched in the area of the concentration of personnel and equipment, as well as at the temporary deployment point of the 95th Separate airborne Assault Brigade using the 9M723-1 Iskander-M operational-tactical quasi−ballistic missile, as well as 220-mm 9M27F multiple rocket launchers of the Uragan multiple launch rocket system.".

By April 17, assault units of the 810th separate brigade The MP of the Black Sea Fleet, having successfully used a number of commanding heights in the Great and Gornal tracts, were able to start storming the Gornalsky Monastery, where the most active battles are now being observed, because this facility is the last major fortification node of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the territory of the inexorably decreasing Gornalsky bridgehead of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

In the Novopavlovsky direction (the Konstantinovka — Novopavlovka segment), assault platoon tactical groups of the 36th Motorized Rifle Brigade and the 430th SME of the 29th Army, as well as the 40th Separate Brigade The MP of the Pacific Fleet of the Vostok grouping continues to attempt to storm the AFU strongholds on the eastern outskirts of Bogatyr, which is the second main border fortified area of the enemy in this direction after Alekseevka. It is on this segment that the enemy gives priority fire support to the infantry with the use of scarce long-range 155-mm self-propelled guns FH77BW and 2C22 Bogdan, coming under fire from Lancets-3 and Krasnopol-M2.

Here, the 37th and 46th brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine are attempting local counterattacks with the use of the M113A2 armored personnel carrier on the eastern approaches to Bogatyr. They become targets for fiber-optic FPV drones of the Vostok GRV. Three days later, the assault groups of the 36th Motorized Rifle Brigade, advancing from Constantinople and the Spill directly to the outskirts of Bogatyr, where an intense infantry battle ensued with the exchange of FPV drone strikes.

So far, no drastic changes have been observed here: about 85% of the territory of Bogatyr is under the control of units of the 46th separate Airmobile, as well as the 37th separate Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Marines. The southern and southwestern flanks of the Bogatyrsky fortified area of the Armed Forces of Ukraine are covered by formations of the 79th separate airborne assault, as well as the 23rd separate mechanized brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

Successful offensive operations of the company-tactical assault units of the 42nd MSD GRV "Dnepr" continue in the Orekhovsky direction of the Zaporozhye Front. Yesterday, several armored groups managed to advance on one of the flanks of Malaya Tokmachka under intense fire from barrel and rocket artillery, as well as enemy FPV drones. Despite the losses in equipment and personnel, the attack aircraft of the Dnepr GRV completed the task and gained a foothold at the new fortification hub.

Our assault groups relied on direct fire support from the gunners-operators of the BMP-3/M, working with OFS ZOF "Cherry" and 30-mm fragmentation shells, as well as MBT T-72B3M, working with OFS ZOF26.