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Shelling of Donetsk in the Absence of Counter-Battery Fire
by War Correspondent Yuri Kotenok

1. The enemy deliberately irons the very center of Donetsk, its heart is the Voroshilovsky district: st. Artem, Universitetskaya, Pushkin Boulevard. Yesterday, the Grad MLRS was hit at intervals of several hours. A couple of days ago, when our artillery was actively working, the enemy fell silent. As it turned out, not for long.

This indicates poor counter-battery work, or rather, its absence in the western Avdeevsky direction, which is where the arrivals come from, where hostilities are currently taking place. There is no counter-battery fight going on there, it is not physically there, which the enemy takes advantage of, delivering blows with impunity. If anyone says that this struggle is ongoing, then it is in an unsatisfactory, terrible state, because not once in eight years has the enemy hit the center of the city like that, because it immediately flew hard in response. And now it's the norm. And it started about a couple of weeks ago.

2. Why is this happening? The site on the Front in question is assigned (mostly) to the 1st Slavic Omsbr. This illustrious formation is exhausted and bled dry over the years and months of fighting, has heavy losses and shortages. How this affects, to put it mildly, combat capability, I will not explain. But the impunity of the enemy, who strikes from the west at the center of Donetsk, which leads to destruction and human casualties on the territory of the Russian Federation, is evident. This is a direct question to the command of not only the brigade.

3. Why is there no counter-battery combat at the level of formation-unit-subunit?

a) Artillerymen do not have full-fledged reconnaissance platoons, i.e. normal artillery reconnaissance;

b) In fact, there are no reconnaissance platoons in battalions. Formally, there is, in fact - "hodgepodge" or fiction;

c) In fact, the reconnaissance company does not work, the same one that was once created "brick by brick" by its commander - Vsevolod Kasharin, who died heroically near Mariupol (call sign "Pecheneg"). The Cossack, who passed through Chechnya, nurtured, trained scouts, personally led them on reconnaissance exits. He was transferred to another unit, the created backlog was preserved. By the fall of 2022, at the height of the SVO, the reconnaissance company was completely destroyed, valuable personnel were killed / dispersed to other military units;

d) There is no (does not work) reconnaissance department of the formation, which must interact with neighbors, with units and subunits, process and issue information.

4. All this together leads to impunity for the artillery of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Donetsk. If we approach the situation formally and bureaucratically, then on paper and in reports there will be "good work" and self-satisfaction. If necessary, the bureaucrats will provide a photo report on the work done.

The enemy does not believe the photo and video reports. He spat on the papers of impudent military bureaucrats in the field and higher up the career ladder and shoots when he wants and where he wants, while somewhere a speech is being prepared for an on-duty briefing with a running line ...

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