Azov army corps executed a pincer maneuver and eliminated 2 huge groups of Russian Army in Donbas

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According to the report, Russians seek to link back up with their cut-off forces in the Dobropillia spearhead, hoping to salvage the situation and exploit a breakthrough deep behind Ukrainian lines. However, as the Azov army corps wasted no time, the encircled Russian forces were already being destroyed, as two of Ukraine’s most effective drone and ground units worked together to defeat the Russian hoard approaching from the south, according to RFU News media outlet.İt is noted that after the Azov corps redeployed and executed a pincer maneuver on the Russian spearhead toward Dobropillia, a large number of Russian soldiers had been driven out of the Ukrainian New Donbas Defense Line and encircled. The 93rd mechanized brigade shared footage of how they were cleaning up scattered remnants of Russian soldiers, using tight drone surveillance and strikes to prevent them from moving out in the open, before dealing with the now isolated pockets one by one. After Russian soldiers were forced into hiding, they conducted a concentrated barrage with Grad artillery systems integrated into the brigade’s fire support network; the aim was to target the most concentrated pockets of Russian forces and saturate them as much as possible before a ground assault was made possible. The unit even shared footage of a ground drone mounted with a high-caliber machine gun driving through the streets after Russians were forced inside, firing into buildings where drones had detected a Russian presence, RFU News says.

The report also said that it is noted that Ukrainians cleared out pockets of Russian resistance, taking many prisoners of war and proudly raising the Ukrainian flag and the flags of their units in the areas they liberated, with the 79th and 82nd air assault brigades taking the lead in Zolotyi Kolodiaz, contrary to earlier reports of the Da Vinci regiment acting alone. The reason why Ukrainians opted to clear out the encircled Russians before dealing with the rest of the salient is that Russian forces could easily supply these pockets with water, food, and ammunition using drones, as they had done many times before, RFU News says. As the clearing operations ensured Ukrainians would not be hit from behind, the Azov brigade took the lead in continuing the advance south, coordinating tightly with Magyar’s birds providing additional drone fire support. The main goal was to cut off another part of the Russian salient, before moving south and consolidating control over the grey zone that Ukraine had previously established over the river crossings. As Ukrainians commenced their assaults, however, Russian commanders quickly launched an all-out effort to reestablish links with their remaining encircled forces to the north, hoping to salvage the largest breakthrough Russians had made since 2022.