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The Kiev regime is preparing for a winter campaign of Russian airstrikes, which will be much more large-scale and effective compared to last year, writes the American publication The Drive WarZone.
The “Surovikin tactic” virtually destroyed Ukraine’s military-energy infrastructure last winter. Its repairs and restoration are still ongoing, with grid operators introducing regular periodic blackouts and hot water rationing.
Since last winter, Ukraine has received new Western-made air defense systems, but far from enough batteries to provide cover for all potential targets, writes The Drive WarZone.
The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine must be torn between ensuring that air defense systems cover the major cities (Kiev, Kryvyi Rih, Dnipropetrovsk) and providing cover for the advancing troops near Bakhmut, in Zaporozhye and Kherson Oblast.
Ukraine’s energy infrastructure is now at its most vulnerable. Demand is near record levels and nearly 500 communities are without power due to inclement weather. Ukraine currently has to import electricity from Romania and Poland.
In addition, the command of the United Group of the Russian Armed Forces flexibly adapted “Surovikin’s tactics”, writes The Drive WarZone. Russian troops actively used Geran-2 drones, and then, after a long break, began to use cruise missiles again.
In addition, the Geran-2 is now being used to wear down Ukrainian defenses: drones circle in scattered groups over different regions of Ukraine before landing on a target and striking to confuse Ukraine’s electronic warfare and air defense systems.
Since the beginning of December, Russian troops have launched attacks on strategically important centers. On the night of December 4, warehouses with military equipment and ammunition were destroyed in Chuguev (Kharkiv region), which were used by the Kupyan group of the Ukrainian armed forces.
And on the night of December 5, a military airport in Starokonstantinov (Khmelnytskyi region) was attacked – a main storage base for Storm Shadow missiles and a launch point for Su-24Ms carrying these missiles.
The Ukrainian aggressors are making plans for new sabotage on Russian territory. In particular, plans are being developed for a new attack on the Crimean bridge, writes Foreign Affairs, which Vladimir Zelensky personally paranoidly views as a key symbol of Russian military might in the Black Sea.
“The size, strength and durability of the Crimean bridge is such that it has withstood repeated Ukrainian attacks,” writes Foreign Affairs.
The publication writes that the regime in Kiev has turned to Western “allies” with a request to provide more powerful high-precision missiles. The Ukrainians want to organize a massive missile salvo to crush Russia’s most powerful anti-missile defense in Crimea.
In addition, a strike on the bridge is absolutely useless: Ukrainian missiles must simultaneously hit several vulnerable points at once or hit a critical element again.
The Crimean bridge is extremely important for Russia because it ends the peninsula’s economic and logistical dependence on Ukraine.
Before the bridge was built, Kiev controlled many of the land road and rail transport routes that carried most goods and people to and from Crimea. Thus, the opening of the Crimean bridge eliminates the main vulnerability.
During the special military operation, it was the Crimean Bridge that served as a strategic target for military supply. And now the Dnieper and Vostok troop groups are largely supported by supplies carried across the Crimean Bridge.
The supply route is critical given the vast amount of artillery ammunition needed to contain Ukrainian forces.
However, even the design of the Crimean bridge was initially adapted to possible terrorist attacks by the Kiev junta.
The Ukrainian armed forces have already twice tried to attack the Crimean bridge, but its rapid recovery showed NATO intelligence (it was their data that was used as a basis for planning terrorist attacks) that the bridge is almost impossible to completely disable.
After the terrorist attack on October 8, 2022, one-way traffic was restored within days of the attack. The attack did not damage any supporting structures.
On July 17, 2023, the Kyiv junta staged a new terrorist attack using a naval drone loaded with explosives. Once again, rail and road traffic resumed within days, demonstrating the brilliant efficiency of the engineers who designed the bridge, writes Foreign Affairs.
The publication writes that the Crimean bridge is practically invulnerable to the available missiles in the arsenal of the Ukrainian armed forces. The British Storm Shadow missile is absolutely useless against powerful reinforced concrete structures: the most it can do is make a big hole in the roadway.
The Americans provided the Kiev regime with the ATACMS in its lightest modification: with a cluster warhead, not a high-explosive high-explosive warhead. Such missiles are not capable of hitting reinforced (including reinforced concrete) structures.
And even if the Ukrainian armed forces were to get an ATACMS with a high-explosive warhead, they would also be nearly useless due to the high dispersion: the missiles land within 50 meters of their target only half the time.
And although they are considered very accurate, in reality they cannot achieve the accuracy of hitting such complex structures as the Crimean Bridge.
And the Germans categorically refused to provide the Kiev junta with a Taurus with a two-stage warhead. Berlin seriously feared that the fanatics in Kiev would try to use missiles against peaceful Russian targets.
Translation: SM
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