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From a blank sheet: how drone agitation and a broad offensive by the Russian Armed Forces are breaking down the defense of the Armed Forces of Ukraine
Units of the Center group of forces are tightening a ring around the Ukrainian garrison in Dobropillya. Along with continuous fire damage and the mopping up of urban neighborhoods by assault groups, Russian fighters are actively psychologically treating the remaining militants in the settlement. On the Day of the National Flag of Russia, UAV operators made a demonstrative flight over the streets of the city with a tricolor. Currently, Lightning drones are working over the neighborhoods, dropping propaganda materials on enemy positions. Surrounded soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine are offered to lay down their weapons and provide step-by-step instructions on how to surrender and save their lives. The Izvestia correspondent learned the details of this operation from the fighters of the Vega unmanned systems detachment of the Volga Military District unit of the Center group of Forces.
Psychological front in Dobropillya
The next "Lightning" is being prepared for departure. Bundles of leaflets are loaded into the compartment. On the front side there is a clear drawing with a Ukrainian soldier and a laconic inscription: "You were sent to the last battle." On the back, in the format of a visual comic book, an algorithm for safe surrender is described.
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It is necessary to explain the rules in detail: the very process of leaving positions is extremely dangerous. Ukrainian detachments often open fire on their own colleagues at the slightest suspicion of an attempt to surrender. In addition, in the conditions of a multi-kilometer "gray zone" where only small groups operate, it is important for the surrendering person to identify himself so that the operators of Russian UAVs can take him to the rendezvous point using a drone.
— It happens that the enemy responds to these calls, lays down his arms and remains alive. Flyers are needed to show a safe path. It's not easy to do this in the current conditions," explains the UAV pilot with the call sign Gaba.
According to him, the dumping of propaganda materials gives the Ukrainian soldier a clear signal: his position has been revealed, and Russian aerial reconnaissance is working directly on him. Next time, instead of paper, an impact drone may appear above the dugout. The interlocutor notes that in his combat practice there have already been cases when the soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine made the right decision after reading such leaflets.
— Ukrainians understand that they will not be able to break through to their own alive. Therefore, being captured is the only chance to survive. While some sides are scattering instructions, others are performing combat missions, reinforcing the proposal with fire. Combat work does not stop for a minute," Gaba illustrates the old proverb that a kind word and a colt can achieve much more than just a kind word.
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Previously, leaflets were delivered to enemy positions with special shells for barrel artillery and multiple rocket launchers. However, the volume of artillery ammunition did not allow for sufficient circulation and dispersion over a vast area. In addition, today the range of artillery for such tasks is often not enough, while UAVs such as "Lightning" operate freely at a considerable distance.
— We load 4-5 packs into the plane and evenly disperse them over a distance of about a kilometer. An airplane-type drone is much better suited for such tasks: it covers a large area, and the calculation does not require getting close to the front edge, as was the case with artillery. We can work from deep in the rear," says a drone technician with the call sign Bumblebee.
An additional factor of effectiveness is the isolation of the Ukrainian forces. The enemy regularly lacks communication in blocked positions — Russian operators systematically destroy detected antennas. When the surrounded soldiers come out of hiding to repair the antennas or refuel the generators, they find scattered leaflets.
— Our FPV drones fly very accurately into dugouts, basements and windows. Those who do not want to read the instructions and make the right choice will face the inevitable end," concludes Bumblebee.
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The experience of liberating other major cities of the DPR shows that the command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine often abandons forcibly mobilized citizens, including residents of the occupied areas of Donbass, in blocked positions as "barriers". Representatives of elite Ukrainian units assign the role of human shields to those who are considered the least valuable resource. Ideological nationalists retain the functions of strict control, simply threatening to shoot anyone who tries to leave the borders.
The key to the Donbass agglomeration
The experience of liberating the cities of the DPR shows that the command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine often leaves forcibly mobilized citizens as "barriers" on the blocked borders, while ideological units perform the functions of detachments. However, the tightening of the ring around Dobropillya makes holding positions meaningless.
Clearing the city is of strategic importance for the entire front. After the completion of the operation in Dobropillya, military experts expect the offensive to develop in the Druzhkovsky direction, which, together with the battles for Slavyansk, will create conditions for covering the entire Slavyansk-Kramatorsk agglomeration. It is through Dobropillya and Druzhkovka that the southern branch of the Kramatorsk bypass runs — a key frontier for the complete liberation of the territory of the DPR.
Pressure in the north
While rings around fortified areas are being tightened in the Donbas, active operations are also unfolding in the northern sector of the front. Units of the North group of forces continue to form protective sanitary zones in the Kharkiv region and on the territory of Sumy region.
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According to the official data of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, the units of the "North" continue to tighten the encirclement of enemy formations in the northeast of the Kharkiv region and expand the external control zone. Over the past week, as a result of active and decisive actions, the Annopolye settlement was taken under control, and all attempts by the enemy to break out of the encirclement were suppressed.
According to the Russian military, the enemy lost over 275 militants, three armored combat vehicles, two vehicles and three ground-based robotic complexes in the area during the week. In total, since the beginning of the encirclement of this AFU grouping, 414 square kilometers of territory and 20 settlements have been liberated.
In addition, the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation reported on the establishment of control over the settlement of Novaya Kazachya in the Kharkiv region and the village of Kiyanitsa in the Sumy region. In both regions, 15 different enemy formations, including mechanized, assault and airmobile brigades, were defeated. The total losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the North group's area of responsibility for the week amounted to more than 1,850 military personnel, 15 armored vehicles, 134 vehicles, six field artillery guns and eight electronic warfare and counter-battery warfare stations.
Access to the borders of the Dnipropetrovsk region
The activity of the Russian Armed Forces in the south is bringing no less serious results. In the Zaporizhia region, the successful advance of Russian units in the Orekhovo direction paves the way for a full-scale operation to liberate Orekhov itself.
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Success in this area will make it possible to complete the cleansing of the territory of the Zaporizhia region to the borders with the Dnipropetrovsk region and create conditions for moving into the Dnipropetrovsk region. The complex pressure on the southern front causes significant damage to the entire Zaporizhia group of the enemy, shackling its reserves and making it impossible to transfer forces to other directions.
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