Руските войски напредват в Донецка област – haroonabadvital.com
Russian forces have advanced near Stary Terny and Korakhovo in the Donetsk region, as shown by the updated map of the military analytical project DeepState, Focus reports.
“The enemy advanced towards Stary Terny and Korakhovo near Kruglyakovka and Pushkino,” the experts’ short message said.
In addition, the DeepState report adds that the connection line has already been clarified in the Novi Kumar area.
Due to catastrophic losses in military equipment, Russian forces in the Kursk region were forced to switch from tanks and infantry fighting vehicles to new trucks straight from the assembly line. This opens new opportunities for the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU), commented the American magazine Forbes.
Analyst David Ax notes that from August 6 to November 26, the Russians in the Kursk region lost 364 units of heavy equipment – mostly tanks, infantry fighting vehicles and trucks. However, these losses may just be a “warm-up for the show” as the Russians attempt to replace hundreds of vehicles with new, less-armored machines.
“According to the forecasts of the Ukrainian intelligence Kriegsforscher, there will be less tracked equipment and more wheeled equipment. This may mean a decrease in the number of tanks, BMP and BMD combat vehicles and MT-LB armored personnel carriers. This may mean an increase in the number of “Tiger” armored trucks and “Typhoon,” BTR-82 wheeled combat vehicles are already reaching the front lines in larger quantities,” Ax wrote.
As the analyst points out, the stock of old machinery is running out, and foreign sanctions are negatively affecting new production. Therefore, Russian factories are adapting by switching from complex tracked vehicles to simpler wheeled vehicles.
The bad news for ASU in the Kursk region is that the Russian army will not run out of equipment, but there is also an upside.
The good news is that the new Russian cars are less powerful than the old cars they replace. One of the reasons the new Tiger weighs just eight tons – half the weight of the old BMP-2 – is that it has a third less armour. Equally worrying for Russian forces is that the BMP-2 tracked vehicle is no more able to move through mud, mud and snow than any other truck.
Ax explains that the trucks will have to stick to the few normal routes, making their movement predictable for Ukrainian drone operators and gunners.
