In the Battlefield of Iyum, where the Russian and Ukrainian armies fought fiercely, the Ukrainian army shot down a Russian Su-35 fighter on April 3, and the entire fighter plane was flattened. It looks like rockets and iron bombs are fired at ultra-low altitudes before they are shot down and shot directly on the ground. The Russian pilot was captured by the Ukrainians after parachuting.
Otherwise, falling down at a height of thousands of meters would have shattered long ago. The Russian military is still too short of precision-guided munitions, especially off-zone strike ammunition. It will use the Su-35 fighter, a high-end cargo of more than 80 million US dollars, to launch rockets at ultra-low altitudes. This kind of work can be done by helicopter gunships and armed drones.
At the same time, the Russian Air Force lacks precision-guided munitions, nighttime precision strike capabilities and electronic warfare capabilities. Russian warplanes can only use ordinary bombs for most of the time to carry out ground strikes. In this way, it is necessary to fly at a low altitude to effectively and accurately hit the target. It also gave the Ukrainian army stinger and starlight man-portable air defense missiles the opportunity to intercept and strike.
Also east of Kharkov, Huyv, Iyzum all the way to the Baraklea salient, the Russian 3rd Motor Rifle Division was attacked by a poisoning incident. The U.S. Business Insider website reported that the Ukrainian Intelligence Service planned an attack near Kharkiv. Will be a large amount of toxic cake and alcohol. Sent to the Russian army in the Iygum region by agents disguised as civilians.
As a result, at least 2 Russian troops were killed, 28 were admitted to intensive care units, and more than 500 poisoned were treated in hospitals. As soon as the Russians captured the Igyum region, the Ukrainian Intelligence Service organized a scam of pretending to be Russian residents to comfort the Russians, which was actually poisoned.
From the above two things, it can be seen that the main battlefield between Russia and Ukraine has now shifted to the Donbass region. The next plan of the Russian army is to set up a number of pontoon bridges on the Severodonzik River with the eastern salient of Kharkiv as the starting position to cover the Russian heavy armored group to encircle the Sichansk-Sidondzek Ukrainian army cluster.
At the same time, the Russians in Mariupol would head north to contain the Ukrainian forces in southern Donbass. Once completed, the Russian reserves were likely to set out from Belgorod for a second round of siege of Kharkov. In the Donbass region, the Ukrainian army had the strongest position in the north, with a defense depth of 100 kilometers, and set up support points between positions and positions. In this way, every time the Ukrainian army attacks, it can get the support point fire support, and at the same time can quickly enter the support point to hide. To escape russian warplane bombing.
The Russian army made a surprise attack from the weak position of the Ukrainian army in the south, and there were also certain difficulties. In the case that Kiev has been relieved, a large number of the main forces of the Ukrainian army have been released, and the Ukrainian army will definitely strengthen the Ukrainian army in Dnipropetrovsk. Not to mention that on the southern front, some of them were tied up in Mariupol.
Therefore, the Russian army is now focusing on bombing Ukrainian oil depots, indicating that the Russian army is limiting the mobility of the Ukrainian army. In order to suspend the situation of reinforcements from the main force of the Ukrainian army to the east. Now, Ukraine has begun the 3rd Wave 15th National Guard Brigade, which can send troops to the Eastern Front without worrying about weapons and ammunition, where there is american and NATO assistance.
Therefore, the Russo-Ukrainian war has now entered the stage of a war of attrition. Russia must send every young man to barracks and factories to crush its opponents in a long war of attrition. This battalion-sized combat group of the Russian army is a rapid reaction force, and it is not enough to fight a large-scale national war. In the past, 1 brigade supported 1 battalion-sized battle group, so the firepower and machine power were strong. But now, if 1 brigade has to support 3 battalion-level battle groups, the resources will be queued.
To a large extent, 1 group army will support more than a dozen battalion-level battle groups, not only artillery, rocket artillery is not enough to distribute. Even the Air Force support force must be diluted. Simply put, the Internet bandwidth is not enough, in the past, a network cable guaranteed 1 computer, and now it is necessary to guarantee 3 computers.
In Syria, more than 50 Russian fighters support the strength of 2 battalion-level battle groups, and in Ukraine, 300 fighters support more than 100 battalion-level battle groups. Therefore, in the Russo-Ukrainian War, the Russian army fought more difficultly and hard.