Ukrainian Mechanized Forces Assault A Key Russian Base. The Objective: To Buy Time.
Ukrainian engineers need time to build new fortifications in the southeast.
Attacking with armored vehicles along a chaotic stretch of the southeastern front line, Ukrainian mechanized forces are buying time for Ukrainian engineers to build more defenses between a powerful yet befuddled Russian army and a city with a pre-war population of more than 700,000.
On Tuesday, mapper Clément Molin noted imagery (see above) depicting a Ukrainian armored vehicle—possibly an American-made M-2 Bradley—firing on Russian positions in the village of Novohryhorivka, in Zaporizhzhia Oblast just two miles north of Uspenivka, the forward base of the Russian 36th Combined Arms Army. A key supply line for Russian forces in the southeast runs through Uspenivka.
“This video and the satellite images confirm the Ukrainian advance in the sector, aimed at slowing the Russian offensive toward Zaporizhzhia,” Molin wrote.
