United Kingdom intelligence services indicated this Monday that camouflage exercises by Russian troops involved in the invasion of Ukraine have been “generally ineffective” due in part to the army’s “low level of combat discipline”. from Russia.
Thus, he indicated that Russia carried out some maneuvers on 24 May around the Crimea bridge that connects the Russian city of Kerch to the peninsula, “through the use of smokescreens to partially conceal the bridge through the creation of a smoke screen”. Including” generators from nuclear, biological and chemical security forces.
“Russian doctrine regards the use of smoke as part of ‘maskirovka’ (camouflage and deception), which it places great emphasis on,” he said in a thread on the British Ministry of Defence’s Twitter account.
He then stressed that “in practice, the Russian ‘maskirovka’ have been generally ineffective in the war in Ukraine, probably due to the lack of a firm planning function and the low level of combat discipline.”
Ukraine announces “significant” Russian casualties
Meanwhile, this Monday, the commander of the Ukrainian land forces, Oleksandr Syrsky, visited troops on the front in the city of Liman in eastern Ukraine, and announced that they had inflicted “significant casualties” on the Russians and that more would soon intensify. Preparing to start “offensive actions”.
Sirsky said in his telegram account, “Our units continue to hold the line and positions, repulsing all enemy attempts to advance in the areas of Bilogorivka, Spirne, Novoselevske, Torske, causing significant losses of personnel and equipment.” Damage happens.”
The Ukrainian commander reported that during his visit to the front he met with Ukrainian military officers in these sectors of the front, with whom he discussed the current situation in the theater of operations and its possible development.
Sirski has said that “the time will soon come when we will move to active offensive actions.” The commander of the Ukrainian Land Forces thanked his soldiers for their work and honored them for their services.
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