In the past 24 hours, the Ukrainian army has launched a fierce counterattack in the southern theater.
In the direction of Kherson, the Ukrainian army took advantage of local firepower and fiercely shelled russian positions and important military facilities in the rear. NASA's Earth Resources Monitoring System clearly captured the scene at that time, and the multiple white circles in the picture below were exactly where the Ukrainian artillery fire hit, and the two circles in the middle were the strongest places for the Russian army to defend, so they were saturated by the Ukrainian artillery fire.
The Russian counterattack was relatively weak (see the red dot in the blue area below), indicating that after concentrating a large number of heavy equipment on the battlefield in Eastern Ukraine, the Russian firepower on the southern front was already at a disadvantage.
I have analyzed before that the strategy of the Ukrainian army in Wudong is to "drag", echelon defense, and fight and go, relying on the fortress group built in Wudong for 8 years to attract and consume a large number of Russian troops and weapons and equipment, and create conditions for their counterattack on the southern front.
This strategy proved to be very effective, and in addition to the superiority gained in artillery, the Ukrainian army also gained air supremacy on the southern front.
According to a report by the Ukrainian Southern Combat Command on July 3, the Ukrainian Air Force recently dispatched fighter jets to bomb Russian positions and ammunition depots five times, destroying two Russian ammunition depots in Chornobayivka and Snihurivka, while Russian warplanes were almost extinct on the southern front.
With the support of air and ground fire, the Ukrainian army is currently continuing to advance to the northwestern outskirts of Kherson City, and under great defensive pressure, the Russian army has to send reinforcements to Kherson Oblast.
In addition to the frontal attack on Kherson Oblast, the Ukrainian army also targeted the Russian logistics transit base on the southern front, Meritopol.
On July 3, the Ukrainians attacked a Russian ammunition depot at melitopol airport using the Haimas multiple rocket launcher system.
Meritopol belongs to the Zaporizhia region in southeastern Ukraine, which was occupied 2 days after the start of the Russian special military operation, and has been the logistics base of the Russian army on the southern front ever since, with 4 ammunition depots alone.
The city was about 60 kilometers from the front line and was supposed to be a relatively safe rear, but the arrival of Hippos changed that.
The mayor of Melitopol, Ukraine, Ivan Fedorov, said that the Ukrainian army used Haimas to launch two waves of attacks on the Russian ammunition depot located at the city's airport, firing a total of more than 30 shells, accurately concentrating the target and triggering a series of outbreaks, completely destroying the large ammunition depot.
2 rounds of strikes and more than 30 shells show that the Haimas (8 tubes) deployed on the southern front is indeed 2 sets.
Although the Ukrainians are currently fighting back on the Southern Front, I don't think they will be able to retake Kherson City anytime soon.
The reason is very simple, Kherson is his own territory after all, and the Ukrainians certainly do not want to beat the city to pieces, so they will try to avoid using Russian-style saturated artillery cover and storming the city at any cost.
Therefore, the strategy of the Ukrainian army should be to cut off Kherson's logistical supplies and force the Russian army to abandon the city.
To get to that end, knocking out the Crimean Bridge makes it a very good choice.
Will the Ukrainian army do this?
Two weeks ago, I thought they might not, but after a large number of civilian facilities were recently attacked by Russian missiles, the Ukrainian side has announced that it will let go of targets in Russia, and the Crimea Bridge naturally no longer has a "deathless gold medal".
The Russian army seems to have realized this, and in recent days they have been putting smoke around the Crimean Bridge, perhaps to stop the Ukrainian missile attack.
At that time, the bureau declared that smog could be defended against air, which once caused ridicule among many people in China, but now the Russian army has become his confidant.
Text/West Wing Drinking Moon
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