Ukraine is Fighting against Moscovian Hordes. Day 441. The Ukrainian Army Goes on Preparing for an Offensive Operation.
Any serious business begins with preparation. And the more serious the matter, the more thorough should be the preparation for it. In order not to spoil it, in order to do everything faultlessly. Needless to say that this postulate is even more apt, more important, where military affairs are concerned, for unpreparedness of the army means heavy losses. And this is at best. At worst, it can lead to the loss of the operation, to the failure of the entire campaign, and even to complete defeat in the war. You don’t have to go far for examples. The Kremlin’s special military operation of subduing Ukraine in three days is very revealing in this sense, isn’t it?
Battling against Muscovy – a country of vastly superior mobilization reserves – Ukraine cannot afford any Pyrrhic victories. Therefore, careful preparation for any battle, especially for the decisive offensive operation, is of dramatic importance.
I’ve already mentioned in my previous post about our drones attack on a 40,000-ton-oil depot on the eastern cape of Kozacha Bay in Sevastopol, Crimea, as a result of which the Black Sea Fleet has lost about half of its fuel.
Last week, our drones attacked also Moscovian oil refineries and oil tank farms in the Kuban, in the Rostov and the Stavropol regions.
Here’s an incomplete chronicle of that preparatory work:
On May 3 at 2:33 am, some drones attacked an oil depot near the port of Taman. The area of the fire, according to Kommersant’s reports, was 1.2 thousand square meters.
On the night of May 4, at 2:05 am, four drones hit the Ilsk Oil Refinery in the Kuban. The area of the fire was up to 400 square meters.
On the same night, a drone struck the Novoshakhtinsk Oil Refinery, which is near the village of Kiselevka, Krasnosulinsk District, Rostov Region. The resulting fire, however, was immediately extinguished.
In the afternoon at 11:20 a second-rank fire was reported near the Eurobeton plant on the Tashla farm of the Shpakovsky municipal district of the Stavropol Territory. The firefighters have managed to decreace the fire area to 500 square meters only after an hour and a half. There were burning, according to reports, barrels of fuel oil. But the plant specializes also in the production of marine and diesel fuel and straight-run gasoline.
In addition to the mentioned above, two trains carrying fuel for military units were derailed in the Bryansk region.
Attacks on oil depots and refineries are unmistakable evidence of preparations for an offensive, because diesel, kerosene, and gasoline are nothing but the blood of war. Therefore, releasing at least a part of it from the mechanical arteries of the enemy’s combat machinery means significantly weakening it, making it sluggish, less combat-capable.
That very week, the Ukrainian drones attacked a Moscovian military airport. As a result, one Ruslan-type military transport aircraft was destroyed and another was significantly damaged.
That same week, Ukrainian drones attacked a Moscovian military airfield in Sescha, Bryansk region. As a result, one Condor-type military transport aircraft (AN-124-100) was destroyed, and another one was significantly damaged. Besides, a couple of days ago, our HIMARSs destroyed a large storage of aritillary ammunition belonging to so-called Wagner military company near the city of Bakhmut.
Do Moscovians feel what all these are leading to? They do, no doubt. Evidence of this is the announcement of evacuation in a vast part of the occupied territory of the Zaporizha region. Dozens of buses with collaborators, with Moscovian soldiers, dressed as civilians, and some local residents serving as human shields for them, are moving from the left bank of the Dnieper River to Berdyansk and Kirillovka, located on the shores of the Sea of Azov. Besides, the day before yesterday, the evacuation of the occupation administration of the city of Skadovsk, Kherson region began.
Meanwhile, the total enemy losses, according to the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine since February 24, 2022 till May 9, 2023 are:
in manpower: about 195 620 ;
in tanks : 3 734;
In combat armored vehicles: 7 257;
in artillery systems : 3 031;
in MLRS : 554;
in anti-aircraft warfare systems: 307;
in aircraft: 308;
in helicopters: 294;
in UAV: 2 618;
in cruise missiles: 955;
in military vehicles: 5 969;
in special equipment: 388;
in Navy warships and boats: 18
More precise data is complicated due to the high intensity hostilities
Valentine But 