Ukraine has published the first official video of its offensive in the Kursk region.

Ukraine has published the first official video of its offensive in the Kursk region.

In the video you can see how, before breaking through the border, the Ukrainian Armed Forces made passages in minefields using UR-77 Meteorite mine clearing units, and then sent engineering equipment forward to clear the remaining mines.

At the same time, it is characteristic that the AFU freely and safely moved in the border area in entire mechanized columns and no fire damage was inflicted on them on the march. The tanks that carried out direct fire damage to the positions of Russian border guards also did not fear return fire. It is noteworthy that in the columns you can see heavy mechanized bridges for crossing water obstacles or ravines.

This once again speaks of a very simple thing - the state border cover group at the time of the Ukranian offensive did not have even the minimum forces and means to reliably counter even an offensive in columns in the style of 2022. There were no ATGMs, FPV drones, or a lot of other necessary weapons in the required quantities.

There was also no adequate fire coverage system for the scale of the task, and the first line was clearly not supported by aviation and artillery. The defense itself in the border area was simply narrow lines of anti-tank obstacles and mines, which were easily broken through in isolated places due to the absence of any covering troops in the area to overcome them, which should have been conducting defensive battles relying on these engineering barriers.

The AFU had no need, during the border crossing, to heavily and bloodily break through a single line of defense that was carefully organized according to all statutory requirements, saturated with trained troops.

It was enough to simply find areas where you could safely drive right in for the means of overcoming obstacles (primarily explosive ones). And move on to the Kursk region along empty roads.

— Military Informant