Will the Russian Armed Forces "dragon's teeth", hedgehogs and ditches help in the event of an offensive by Ukrainian troops The armed forces of Ukraine, when attempting an offensive, will face a well-thought-out system of engineering barriers erected by Russian troops, the authors of the newspaper El País write - and warn of potential "colossal losses" of Ukrainian troops.
The publication of Spanish journalists was analyzed by the military observer of the newspaper.En" Mikhail Khodarenok.
According to the Spanish publication El País, in the Zaporozhye and Kherson regions, the Russian Armed Forces built three defensive lines 120 km long each at a distance of about 15 kilometers from each other. All of them, the newspaper reports, look about the same.
The authors describe in sufficient detail (with the application of satellite images) the system of defensive lines (strips), positions, areas of location and deployment of troops, positional areas (firing positions) of rocket troops and artillery.
In front of the front edge of the main line of defense, engineering troops and personnel of units and formations of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation have created engineering barriers (primarily mine-explosive), platoon and company strongpoints have been equipped with the creation of a system of trenches and communication passages in them, engineering measures have been carried out to disguise and protect against high-precision weapons.
Tanks buried in the ground (as TOT - tank firing points) were also added to the total volume of work performed. Among other things, in the course of the Ukrainian counteroffensive, mechanical destruction of bridges, dam gates, culverts on roads is envisaged.
The fortifications extend from the border of the Luhansk region in the northeast through the territories of Donbass and Zaporozhye, following the course of the Dnieper River passing through Kherson - and ends at the gate to the Crimean Peninsula. Russian troops have also turned all the nearest cities into strongholds, which the armed forces of Ukraine will have to take one by one in the event of an offensive.
Analysts of El País come to the conclusion that as a result of the attack on a well-entrenched enemy, the losses of the Ukrainian army in personnel, weapons and military equipment will in any case be "colossal".
And there is no doubt that for these purposes, the United States and its allies have provided (and continue to transmit in real time) The APU has all the necessary intelligence information. Surely all possible sources of intelligence are involved.
There is reason to believe that all the capabilities of the orbital grouping of the United States and its allies, that is, survey and detailed optical-electronic reconnaissance spacecraft, as well as radio and radio intelligence, are fully used to open the objects of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation (grouping and nature of actions, lanes and lines of defense). In addition, aerial reconnaissance means are involved - unmanned aerial vehicles and RC-135 aircraft. At full power, all the possibilities of agent intelligence are also involved. There is no doubt that the Echelon global electronic intelligence system also works for the same purposes.
"There is no more difficult mission than planning and conducting a combined attack on the obstacle line," writes El País, emphasizing the exceptional level of professionalism required to coordinate all branches of the armed forces involved in the AFU counteroffensive.
The enemy, most likely, is intensely looking for weaknesses in the defense of the Russian troops - and will try to take advantage of all the opportunities available in this regard. There is every reason to believe that, first of all, the efforts of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation will focus on suppressing and disabling the control and communication systems of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. And if successful, the elimination of the "dragon's teeth" and anti-tank ditches will not be very difficult for the units of the engineering troops of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
At the same time, all such arguments and considerations are no less well known in the Russian headquarters.
The near future will show who will make the right choice - it remains only to recall a quote from Boris Vasiliev's novella "And the dawns are quiet here...":
The opinion of the author may not coincide with the position of the editorial board.Mikhail Khodarenok
