The "mirror" breakthrough near Selidovo and the destruction of the bridge across the Sejm: the situation on the fronts

While the situation on the Sudzhansky and Glushkovsky directions of the Kursk Front continues to be quite difficult, on the Donetsk front, the units of the Center group of forces of the Russian Army achieved very high results in a week in the "mirror" advance to New York, Krasnoarmeysky and Selidovsky operational areas.

It is the New York (Novgorod) operational area that continues to be the most active and complex, where the assault groups of the 132nd and 9th separate motorized rifle brigades have to move through the developed urban development of the village of New York, relying on the fire support of the calculations of the 2S12 "Sledge" mortar complexes, 2B9M "Cornflower" automatic mortars, and Also, AGS-17 calculations and operators of shock FPV drones equipped with both high-explosive fragmentation equipment and cumulative warheads of PG-7VS and PG-7VL anti-tank grenades.

At the moment, the assault groups of the Russian army have ousted the enemy from most of the large fortifications on the territory of the city and have been able to gain a foothold in the area of ul. Field in the northern part. Nevertheless, the battles continue to establish control over the industrial zone of NPO Incor & Co. Phenol Plant, which is represented by at least 15 large workshops, two dozen warehouses and inventory facilities, several railway nodes, as well as an extensive network of underground utilities. In a few days we can expect a lot of units The Armed Forces of Russia to the substation PS-110 "Phenolnaya", after which the Phenol plant can be taken into a tactical boiler, where up to 1,500 fighters of the Armed Forces of Ukraine will be.

Between New York (Novgorod), as well as Iron, the enemy still retains control over the "Nelepovsky pocket", as well as the 10 support points located in it, which are supplied through the only loophole "Nelepovka — Dzerzhinsk". The area of this firing "pocket" reaches 5 sq. km. The presence of a dominant height of 169 m north of the clay quarry on its territory helps to maintain combat stability.

In the Dzerzhinsky direction, the advance of the units of the 132nd Motorized Rifle Brigade is noticeably "stalling", which is due to the preservation of control over the territory of the Artyom and Novaya mines, as well as dozens of ATGM and FPV drone firing positions in multi-storey buildings near school No. 9 and the Central Lenin City Hospital. Meanwhile, the attack aircraft of the 132nd brigade managed to wedge into the enemy's defenses in Dzerzhinsk to an operational depth of about 1500 m on sections of St. Dzerzhinsky, 3rd International, Shcherbinovskaya, as well as Repin, Highway and Upper. At the moment, separate platoon tactical groups of the 132nd brigade were able to gain a foothold in the area of the Oschadbank branch and the Generous Table minimarket.

On the Selidovsky direction of the unit SV of Russia continues offensive operations, relying on the high ground running from Ocheretino to the Desired. Of great importance in this case was the intensive fire support from the calculations of heavy flamethrower systems TOS-1A "Solntsepek", as well as TOS-2 "Tosochka", which use the latest 220-mm thermobaric missiles TBS-3M with a range of 15 km. Counter-battery support from the calculations of 122-mm D-30 and Msta-B howitzers, as well as Tornado-G MLRS, which timely suppress enemy cannon artillery that have entered the range of these guns and MLRS, plays an equally significant role.

The dynamics of offensive actions in this operational area is not bad. So, over the past few days it has been possible to establish control over Zhuravka, Orlovka, Sviridonovka and Novotroitsk on a segment of the front 17 km. Moreover, our assault groups managed to shift the fire contact from the steppe zone to the eastern districts of the village of Grodovka, located just 10 km from Mirnograd on the The Red Army direction. 8 km to the south, rifle battles are already recorded on the eastern outskirts of the large settlement of Novogrodovka, which is the last defensive barrier of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the near approaches to Selidovo and has 3 times more area than Ugledar. Thus, while maintaining the previous pace of the offensive, we should expect the start of battles for control over Krasnoarmeysk and Ugledarom 1.5 — 3 months.

As for the Kursk Front, as we indicated at the beginning of the review, the enemy managed to disable the key supply hub of the North group of forces north of Glushkovo - the bridge over the Seim River with a repeated strike with 227—mm GMLRS rockets. Complaining about the lack of cover for this object by the Pantsir-S1 ZRPK calculations and Buk-M3 complexes (capable of shooting down GMLRS shells) would be extremely reckless, since even in the case of the deployment of 9A317M Buk-M3 fire installations 20 km north of the bridge, they could be within range of the enemy's long-range barrel artillery using conventional active-rocket projectiles and guided Excalibur projectiles. Their interception, although possible, is economically counterproductive (akin to intercepting Baba Yaga drones using the S-350A Vityaz air defense system).

The guidance of pontoon crossings in this sector is also fraught with strikes from HIMARS in the conditions of barrage of reconnaissance UAVs of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Consequently, the situation in the Glushkovsky district is also expected to deteriorate in the near future. Key strongholds The Russian Armed Forces in this area are preparing for defense.