Russian Offensive Crashes Into Ukrainian Fortress Belt
By:Giorgio Provinciali
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Kramatorsk Taking advantage of favorable weather conditions,the Russian Federation has recently launched the ground phase of its offensive against the fortress belt of Ukrainian Donbas.
In a coordinated assault involving over 500 infantry, around thirty armored vehicles, and roughly a hundred other motor vehicles from the 1st Tank Army and the 20th Combined Army, the Russian forces simultaneously targeted all seven strategically important positions held by the Third Ukrainian Army Corps in Donetsk.
This wasthe largest Russian breakthrough attempt in the direction of Lyman-Borivka that is, toward Sloviansk and the city from which I am writing andthe most stinging and resounding defeat the Z troops have suffered on that side.
In just four hours, Moscow lost virtually everything: 405 soldiers (288 of whom were beyond recovery, with the remainder wounded), 11 armored infantry and personnel carriers, and 84 motor vehicles.
A complete defeat announcedby Brigadier General Andriy Biletskyy in a video posted on the official channels of the Third Army Corps, formed from Azov which also saw the Russians lose five cannons, a TOS Soncepyok thermobaric system, three tanks, and over 160 drones.
Moscows armed forces spent more than 12 years and a significant part of the 1.3 million troops lost so far to approach that defensive belt. After a month and a half of preparations including deploying drones and guided glide bombs to hinder Ukrainian logistics, clearing mines along vital strategic routes, and attempting to cross the Oskil River the Russian army faced heavy losses and has yet to seize any settlement or position.
This attempt to create conditions for advancing into Donbas, however, is part of a more organized offensive that has caused Russia to lose nearly 5,000 men in three days and over 8,000 in just one week. Moscow has increased pressure across the entire front with mechanized attacks that have put the Russian command in a bind, asUkraine has taken advantage of its investments in advanced technologies, enabling it to regain more territory than the Russians had captured.
Along with the offensives against the Donbas fortress belt the Russian invaders have tried to attack Orikhiv and strengthen their hold in Huliaypole (Zaporizhzhia), and to establish buffer zones north of Kharkiv and in the Sumy region. Having already lost more soldiers than they can recruit for at least three months, the Russian command has had to pull reinforcements from the part of Kherson Oblast they occupy and plans to deploy all mobilized personnel currently in Crimea starting April 1st.
Against Kostiantynivka alone, located about thirty kilometers from where I am writing this article, the Russians launch over 80 attacks a day. In the directions of Ocheretyne, Lyman, and Kupiansk, there are as many as 150: roughly one every ten minutes. Additionally, they are massing such a large number of troops and equipment in Orikhiv that it suggestsMoscows spring offensive plans include a simultaneous assault on Zaporizhzhia.
In the past week alone, the Russian Federation launched over 1,260 glide bombs, 1,550 high-explosive drones, and two ballistic missiles against Ukraine. During the same period,the partial easing of economic restrictions imposed on it has restored Moscows financial margins and sales prospects.
As the Ukrainian presidentnoted,those profits restore a sense of impunity and the ability to continue it. For this reason, Ukraines attacks in recent hours have targeted Russian oil infrastructure. In a coordinated attack with SBU special services, the Armed Forces of Ukraineclaimedresponsibility for a raid on the Transneft terminal in Primorsk (Leningrad region), which with the transit of 60 million tons of oil annually is Russias key oil hub on the Baltic Sea. While its tanks were ablaze, approximately 1,400 kilometers from its border, Ukraine alsostruckthe Russian Bashneft-Ufaneftekhim refinery, which processes approximately 68 million tons of crude oil annually.
The failed Russian tactical breakthrough should therefore not be mistaken for the end of a strategic threat but should be viewed within a broader context.Moscow has increased pressure along multiple fronts, but the cost of doing so is currently rising faster than the operational gains made.
This is a crucial step that Ukrainian political and military leaders have prepared for, reaching one of the most sensitive moments of the war: a point when survival depends not just on withstanding the shock, but on making the war unsustainable for those who started it.
The war fired by the US and Israel in the Middle East costing a billion dollars a day has so far given Russia a strategic advantage, increasing its energy earnings and shifting the Wests focus, resources, and economic and military priorities elsewhere.
Credit for reversing this trend goes to the Kyiv General Staff, which has successfully closed the loop between targeted technological investments, frontline organization, and understanding the metabolism of the war: not only containing the Russian assault but also impacting the infrastructure and economic flows that fuel its continuation.
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俄羅斯攻勢撞上烏克蘭要塞帶
作者：Giorgio Provinciali
翻譯：旺財球球
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克拉馬托爾斯克借助有利的天氣條件，俄聯邦近期對烏克蘭頓巴斯要塞帶發動了其攻勢的地麵階段。
在一次協調行動中，俄軍第1坦克集團軍和第20聯合集團軍動員了超過500名步兵、約30輛裝甲車輛及大約100輛其他機動車，同時突擊了烏克蘭第三軍團在頓涅茨克控製的七處戰略要點。
這是俄軍在利曼博裏夫卡方向（即指向斯洛維揚斯克及我撰寫本文的這座城市）發動的最大規模突破嚐試，也是俄軍在該一線遭受的最慘重、最徹底的失敗。
僅在四小時內，莫斯科基本上損失殆盡：405名士兵（其中288人已無法救治，其餘受傷）、11輛裝甲步兵戰車/人員輸送車和84輛機動車輛。
（圖：我與Alla在烏克蘭頓巴斯的戰壕中報道????????版權所有，Giorgio Provinciali）
這是一場徹底的潰敗由以亞速編製為基礎組建的第三軍團在其官方頻道發布的視頻中，旅長安德裏比列茨基宣布，俄軍還損失了五門火炮、一套TOS太陽之熾熱壓殺傷係統、三輛坦克和超過160架無人機。
莫斯科付出了逾12年的努力、及迄今為止喪失的約130萬人份兵力中的相當一部分，才接近那道防禦帶。經過一個半月的準備：包括部署無人機與製導滑翔炸彈以破壞烏方補給線、清除重要戰略通路的地雷、並試圖渡過奧斯克爾河，俄軍仍遭受重大損失，迄今尚未奪取任何定居點或陣地。
然而，此次試圖為在頓巴斯進一步推進創造進攻條件的努力，隻是俄更大攻勢的一部分，此舉使俄軍在三天內已損失近5,000人、一周內逾8,000人。莫斯科在全線加大機械化攻勢的壓力，這反而使俄方指揮陷入被動，而烏克蘭利用其在先進技術上的投入，已收複了比俄軍占領的更多的領土。
（圖：我與Alla在烏克蘭頓涅茨克的殺傷區報道????????版權所有，Giorgio Provinciali）
除了對頓巴斯要塞帶的進攻外，俄軍還試圖攻打奧裏希夫，並加強其在紮波羅熱的胡裏亞波利的控製，同時在哈爾科夫北部和蘇梅地區建立緩衝區。由於已損失兵力超過其在至少三個月內可補充的兵源，俄方不得不從其占領的赫爾鬆州部分地區抽調增援，並計劃自4月1日起部署目前在克裏米亞的全部已動員人員。
單在距我撰寫此文所在地約三十公裏外的科斯蒂安丁尼夫卡，俄軍每天發動超過80次襲擊。在奧切雷蒂內、利曼和庫皮揚斯克方向，攻勢多達150次：大約每十分鍾一次。另外，俄軍在奧裏希夫集結了大量兵力與裝備，這表明莫斯科的春季攻勢可能包含對紮波羅熱的同步攻擊計劃。
僅在過去一周，俄聯邦對烏克蘭發射了超過1,260枚滑翔炸彈、1,550枚高爆無人機和兩枚彈道導彈。同一時期，對俄部分經濟製裁的解除恢複了莫斯科的財政空間與銷售前景。
正如烏克蘭總統所指出，這些收益恢複了俄方的有恃無恐感與繼續行動的能力。因此，烏克蘭在近幾小時內針對俄方石油基礎設施發起了打擊。在與烏克蘭安全局特勤部門的協調行動中，烏克蘭武裝部隊宣稱對位於列寧格勒州濱海普裏莫爾斯克的Transneft終端發動了突襲該終端每年輸送6000萬噸石油，是俄羅斯在波羅的海的重要石油樞紐。在其油罐燃燒的同時，距其邊境約1400公裏處，烏克蘭還襲擊了俄羅斯巴什涅夫特烏法石化煉油廠，該廠年加工原油約600800萬噸。
（圖：數小時前我與Alla在烏克蘭赫爾鬆報道????????版權所有，Giorgio Provinciali）
因此，這次俄軍戰術性突擊的失敗不應被誤解為戰略威脅的終結，而應置於更廣闊的背景下理解。莫斯科在多線同時施壓，但其為此付出的代價的增長速度已經超過其作戰收益。
這是烏克蘭政軍領導層早有準備的關鍵一步，達到了戰爭中最為敏感的時刻之一：此刻的生存不僅取決於承受衝擊，更在於使發動戰爭者難以為繼。
（圖：我在烏克蘭頓涅茨克克拉馬托爾斯克現場報道????????版權所有，Giorgio Provinciali）
美國與以色列在中東引發的戰爭每日耗費數十億美元迄今為止給了俄羅斯一定的戰略優勢，增加了其能源收入，並分散了西方的關注、資源及經濟與軍事優先事項。
扭轉這一趨勢的功勞應歸於基輔總參謀部，他們成功地將有針對性的技術投資、前線組織與對戰爭代謝機製的理解串聯起來：不僅遏製俄軍攻勢，還影響了支撐其戰爭機器運轉的基礎設施與經濟流動。
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