Ukrainian Parachutes Capture Village, Kyiv launches local counterattacks

Ukrainian forces performed limited but successful counterattacks Russian forcesThey said Thursdays and Fighting Reports.

A video Published Wednesday the command of the Ukraine Air Force, credited the 25 -A air brigade separately with the village aggression and cleaning in Kotlyne near the city of the fortress of Pokrovsky At the beginning of the week.

25 is an ordinary long -term armed force of Ukraine (Afu) Formation with a stretch record that extends until 2014. The only major unity of Ukraine organized to attack through air drops, from February 2022, 25A Brigade fought almost exclusively in the Pokrovsk sector.

The Russian forces captured the village of Kotlyne important from a tactical point of view to place the main supply road to Pokrovsk under fire. Russian success threatened Pokrovsk, a key stone in Ukrainian defenses in mineral rich Donbas region, with an encirclement.

A unique battalion from the 25th brigade regained Kotlyne in a combined operation supported by three other formations, 15, 115 and the first Slavic Brigade, said the unit spokesman, Serhiy Okishev

The commander of the battalion, Serhiy Hera, in comments published in AFU, said that more than one month of planning, information collection, preparatory training and 24/7 vision drone attacks (FPV) against Russian troops in the village took place before the real attack entered the night. The Drone video showed the Ukrainian infantry that infiltrates the village in two directions.

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Other images have shown that Russian soldiers have been withdrawn from fire from anti-personal grenades, thrown by bombers, Kamikaze attacks by FPV drone and peel and mortar. A 25 brigade statement claimed that two Russian-approximately 150-250 men’s soldiers were destroyed in the operation of that maneuver.

An AFU statement said that Ukrainian forces captured the village on Tuesday. The US Independent Institute for War Study (ISW), among others, confirmed Ukrainian success.

In the video, three men told a camera that they were Russian soldiers taken prisoners of 25th air parachute. A soldier said that he and his colleagues were taken prisoners in an attack by the third brigade battalion and that they had a good treatment from Ukrainians. Hera said that the Russian soldiers captured by his people “had a weak morality.”

The soldiers and Ukrainian officers throughout the war complained that AFU operations can be hurried and poorly planned. Fighting leaders, especially in the more professional branches of AFU, such as parachutes, marine kids and assault infantry have requested a better organization, a deliberate coordination of the units and the attribution of realistic objectives. The video for the successful Kotlyne attack seemed to profile those tactics. A statement by the general staff of the Friday army (AGS) said the 25 brigade attack went well and regained the village.

Some fighting platforms reported on Friday that Kyiv forces have also marked progress on the western edge of the Donbas region of Toretsk and Chasiv YarTo the northern -Pokrovsk, but there were less conclusive evidence.

The Russian forces ejected the Ukrainian troops from Central Toretsk in early February, after more than a month of bloody attacks. The Ukrainian fortifications of Chasiv Yar, a high -field city, have banned all Russian, but incremental progress in this sector for more than a year.

The Ukrainian official statements identified the 93th Mechanized Brigade, an experienced unit with a strong fight record, as an employed in the Toretsk sector in “meeting battles” and “counterattacks”. The Russian information channel Rybar Z, on Wednesday, said that Ukrainian attacks recapitulated two coal mines and their adjacent slag piles in the city center. The profit, if consolidated, would advance the Ukrainian lines of about 2 kilometers (1.2 miles), however, sources on both sides said that the fight that takes place in built areas was confused.

The official Russian and Ukrainian official sources were in contradiction with the fight in Chasiv Yar, the Russian Defense Ministry organized the 98th air division for successful advances, and the common Khortytsia forces that report the 24th mechanized brigade performed offensive operations.

Eastern Ukraine’s defenses in January suffered twin regional defeats in early February with loss Kurakhovea transport center and electricity network west of Pokrovsk and in the adjacent city Velyka Novosilka. If it had been detained, Ukrainian progress in Kotlyne, Toretsk and Chasiv Yar would mark a at least local reversal of this trend.

A Thursday morning statement of the Commune Forces Command Khortytsia reported that Russian forces launched a new round of attacks in the Pokrovsk sector, but claimed that Ukrainian defenses in most points: “The invaders tried to achieve their numerical superiority and break through our defensive positions, Novotoretske, Myrolyubivka, Promyn, Kotly, and Nadiyivka. The fight continues in Lysivka, Pishchane and Dachenske. To deliver assault units in our positions near Uprnivka, the enemy used three vehicles, which were destroyed by our artillery fire. “

According to Ukrainian officials, the rhythm and frequency of Russian attacks throughout the Donbas region have reduced somewhat. In February, the Russians captured about 120 square kilometers (46 square miles) from the Ukrainian territory, compared to 350 square kilometers (135 square miles) in January, Deeptate Group Independent Battle Tracking Garking Depsate.

On Thursday, the main Ukrainian officer responsible for the defense in the east of the Donbas sector, Major General Andriy Hnatov, was actually promoted with an appointment at the workplace of the Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces in Ukraine. He ordered the common group of Khortytsia forces for eight months, during which time the Ukrainian defenses in the Donbas sector consolidated and the pace of Russian attacks slowed down. His predecessor was fired because he failed to stop a major Russian offensive.

A new generation Ukrainian fighting commander, Hnatov started his career in the Ukraine Marine Brigade in 2010. He has been raised to the senior order In February 2024 following a driving shaking at the top of AFU.