Soldiers of the 47th Separate Mechanised Brigade ‘Magura’ have been fighting in the Kursk sector for several months. The defenders say that the most combat-ready brigades have been sent here, but human resources are needed to withstand the Russian offensive.
This is described in a report by Slidstvo.Info.
Slisdtvo.Info talked to fighters of the 47th Separate Mechanised Brigade “Magura” who are currently fighting in the Kursk sector. They have been here for several months. And since the Russians launched an offensive and Ukrainian troops went on the defensive, the defenders of Ukraine have been preventing the Russian army from reaching the border and driving the Ukrainian army out of the Kursk region.
The head of the artillery of the 47th Brigade’s battalion, call sign ‘Shaman’, says that in order to hold their positions in Kursk, the Ukrainian army needs men and equipment. This is the only way the defenders of Ukraine will be able to expand the offensive that the Ukrainian Armed Forces have managed to launch.
Battalion artillery commander of the 47th Brigade, call sign ‘Shaman’
‘The most combat-ready brigades have been brought here to form a strike group that is ready to hold out here. But there are big buts. We need the resources to withstand it. We need people, first and foremost. We also need equipment to withstand all this and be able to expand the offensive that the brigades that broke through before us managed to do,’ says Shaman.
According to the Ukrainian fighters, the Russians are running from one shelter to another in small groups of 2-3 people, so they manage to reach the UAF positions.
‘They (Russians — ed.) are accumulating in front of us and want to storm us. At the moment, we have their extreme frontier under fire control. General practice shows that if you kill the enemy in the morning, they are inactive for the whole day…
The position is well set up, people more or less understand what they are doing there, they have divided into sectors and everything is fine,’ says Shaman.
The soldier says that in 11 days, the 47th Brigade managed to kill about 40 Russians, and 20 more were wounded.
‘We destroyed up to 50-60 vehicles with all the units on this line of defence… by joint efforts,’ adds Shaman.
According to the military, the Russians are not as combat-ready in the Kursk region as they were in the Donetsk region: ‘Everything is according to the old programme: cannon fodder assaults, lots of equipment, they (Russians — ed.) all die. In Donbas, they went in small groups, in each case calling our position ‘for contact’, then dismantling it with artillery and occupying the territory. Here, the enemy is not yet capable of this and is purely eating up the reserves that Russia has pulled from Ukraine from different directions.’
