For months, Russian forces have been digging in, building concrete bunkers and constructing tunnel networks. The result is a painstakingly slow Ukrainian counteroffensive in Zaporizhzhia.
MALA TOKMACHKA, Ukraine — Just half a mile from the enemy’s deeply fortified trench, a reconnaissance team hunted the Russian positions by drone last week, live-streaming video for Ukrainian gun crews and their commanders.U.S.-provided M777 howitzers boomed far behind them. Shells whistled overhead, and the spotters watched them hit Russian positions on the ridge through the video screens of their controllers. The blast wave rolled in a moment later, as smoke boiled up.
“I just focus on my work to make as much effort as I can,” Labrador said, as a Soviet-era automatic grenade launcher let off a rapid-fire burst across the way. The pro-Russian military blog Rybar, posting on Telegram, offered a similar assessment of the counteroffensive, though he called the Zaporizhzhian sector “the hottest,” with heavy fighting northeast of Robotyne.
Though some analysts characterized last month’s push with Leopard tanks near here as a probing action, Muzyka said it looked more like an important attempt at a breakthrough that failed. And now both sides have settled again into a war of attrition almost everywhere, except near Bakhmut.“Russian defensive operations have been very well conducted, apart from the initial gains that Ukraine made in the first couple of days of the main phase of the offensive,” Muzyka said.
Days ago, with the moon nearly full against a patchy sky, the team of spotters loaded their gear into a camouflaged pickup about 3 a.m. and sped through Orikhiv and other heavily damaged settlements.Their front-line position, steps away from a Ukrainian mortar crew that had been shelling all night, looked across a field strewn with purple and yellow wildflowers. Beyond the field was a low ridge held by Russian forces.
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