Engagement of Ukrainian special services or reality: heavy losses of the Russian Armed Forces reported in Pavlovka

Throw or reality

The Telegram channel of the Primorsky Krai government published a comment by the Governor of the region, Oleg Kozhemyako, on the possible losses of the 155th Separate Guards Marine Brigade of the Pacific Fleet in the city of Pavlovka, Donetsk People’s Republic.

“We have sent this call to the authorities and the military prosecutor’s office to clarify the situation,” Kozhemyako said.

According to him, reports of heavy losses of Russian troops in the village could be “filling from the enemy – from the Ukrainian special services.”

Later, a video message was broadcast on the governor’s Telegram channel, in which Kozhemyako said that she had contacted “the commanders of our marines on the front line.”

“We are making hard progress, yes there are losses, but not much. It is not a staff officer who speaks, but a combat commander. He stressed that Primorye’s losses were greatly exaggerated! For us, every loss between our fellow countrymen is a great loss and pain. We mourn for the dead. “We will provide assistance to families and the injured,” he said.

He also expressed confidence that “in any case, this situation will be analyzed and the competent authorities will make its assessment”.

The Russian Ministry of Defense denied the statements about “high unnecessary losses in people and equipment.” The Ministry reported that the units of the 155th Brigade have been conducting effective offensive operations in the Uludar direction for more than 10 days.

“Due to the competent actions of the troop commanders, the losses of the sailors during this period do not exceed 1% of the combat force and 7% of the wounded, a significant part of which has already returned to duty,” RIA Novosti said. From the Ministry of Defense.

According to the agency, “at the same time, enemy losses along the brigade’s line of contact averaged 7 to 1, and in some areas 9 to 1 in people and equipment.”

“Difficult situation”

The previous day, VGTRK war correspondent Alexander Sladkov wrote on his Telegram channel that a “difficult situation” had developed in Pavlovka.

“155. The sailors of our brigade turned to the governor of Primorye, Oleg Kozhemyako. There are three high names in the letter, I know, but I am not quoting the situation in Pavlovka has been talked about upstairs for several days, and blood is flowing and flowing, ”the journalist wrote.

He stated that the Marine Corps would not publish the text of the letter, but that the core of the message was “transmitted to the Ministry of Defense, originally in Primorye.”

“(Letter – socialbites.ca) says: the inability to pass information on to senior management about the huge losses, our high unnecessary losses in people and technology. I have the numbers, but then it depends on the attorney general, ”the military commander stressed.

He later wrote that “the link is working” and that “the information has come to the top”. Sladkov added that it was necessary to “save people”, let them “be heroes, not flesh mixed with earth and wood.”

Learning that Kozhemyako had instructed to look into the situation in Pavlovka, Sladkov said on his channel that he saw it as “an example of a genuine state approach”.

“I’m waiting for a quick response and an official statement about the real situation Friends, the authorities will solve this (the main issue is not from a distance, but at a distance of 2.5 km) and will officially explain everything,” he wrote.

fights for Pavlovka

On October 30, the Russian Ministry of Defense reported that in the South Donetsk direction, Russian troops “destroyed the enemy in the settlements of Novomikhailovka and Vladimirovka of the Donetsk People’s Republic, and also captured and commanded a number of forts at heights.”

According to the defense ministry, assault detachments of Russian troops “arrived on the southern outskirts” of Pavlovka in the DPR. At the same time, more than 100 Ukrainian soldiers, one tank, three armored combat vehicles and six pickup trucks belonging to the Ukrainian Armed Forces were destroyed.

The founder of the “Vostok” brigade, public and political figure of the DPR Alexander Khodakovsky wrote on the Telegram channel on October 29 that during the battles for Pavlovka, the Armed Forces of Ukraine put up “desperate resistance”.

“Pavlovka was under our control, but in the summer it was lost due to a number of errors. By itself, this village is about three times larger than Ugledar – if the enemy does not decide to retreat, leveling the front, then the capture of Pavlovka can take a lot of time and effort, ”he suggested.

The next day, he wrote that Pavlovka was partially under the control of the Russian Armed Forces, “troops entering the village from different directions are slowly approaching, overcoming the inevitable confusion, and probing each other to avoid defeating themselves on a collision course.” At the same time, the resistance of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the village began to “weak out”, according to Khodakovsky.

On October 31st, the founder of Vostok announced that he found the attack on Pavlovka “premature”. He explained that it was “only one thousand eight hundred meters to the first tall buildings of Ugledar” from the village.

“In this part of the front, after taking Pavlovka, it is only necessary to advance to Vgledar – otherwise the defenders of Pavlovka will be taken hostage again. It will be difficult to transport and turn what is necessary, it will be impossible to move along Pavlovka: one thousand eight hundred meters from the prevailing heights makes our men a target even for machine guns – and it will be very difficult to take fortified positions in such weather, ”Ugledar suggested.

By the end of the day, Khodakovsky said, “the enemy has become more active: he has withdrawn several armored vehicle units from the direction of Prechistovka and Ugledar and deployed the MLRS in areas that he considers to be under the control of the Russian Armed Forces. forces.” Thus, the pace of advance of the Russian troops was “insignificant”, and the Armed Forces of Ukraine managed to “pull three units of armored vehicles into the village by Vugledar.”

On November 3, the founder of Vostok said that “there is not much to write about the attack in the direction of Vugledar”. In Pavlovka, the Russian Armed Forces “advanced as far as they could and were held hostage due to landslides and elevation above sea level.”

“The enemy does not observe silently, as you understand, he works with artillery. As a result, everything stops, and we must pay tribute to the enemy, who is not in a hurry to dive into the mud with his head in the directions where we expect his large-scale attack, but expects normal conditions. said.

On November 5, Khodakovsky wrote that “his worries about Pavlovka were not in vain.”

“I make a proposal: to save the design of the star of the DPR hero for the Russian award series, and to deliver it when the market situation requires it, but only when the military leader achieves a “success”. ”, the “game” where the “candy” is not worth it. For Pavlovka, the generator of this operation – as a special distinguishing mark – should be given such a star with a black stripe – he suggested.

On November 6, he concluded that an entire generation of military experts, which should have been the most important layer of management by “length of service”, was lost somewhere.

“Still, my hope for a better outcome was lost with a measured understanding of expectations, and I put it in a rough statement: I find the attack premature. And the point here is not in Pavlovka, where we fell into a firebox and suffered losses, but the founder of Vostok was close, with a typical approach for most representatives of this “lost generation”.