17.03. 2025 Russian troops of the “Dniepr” Group broke the first Ukrainian line of defence and moved to a local attack on Zaporozh to the west of the city of Oriechowo
Dniepr Group commanded by General Michał Tieplinski The 58th National Army had been separated by forces for a fewer days now until an attack in the belt about 10 km, between Kamienskie village and Oriechowo town.
Russian troops after strong preparation of artillery squadrons of barrel and rocket artillery from the 292nd Regiment of Artillery went into assault action, attacking a heavy fortified line of Ukrainian defence between those converted into defensive bastions, villages of Szczerbaki, small Szczerbaki and Stepovoje.
In defence of extended field fortifications shielded by many minefields and engineering dams, there are battalions of the Ukrainian 128 Mountain Storm Brigade, with the support of the brigade artillery battalion.
In the first pitch, the Russian 392th firearm Reserve Regiment Mechanized in the axis on Szczerbaki, on the left flank, with the 247th Guarded Cossack Desantowo-Sturm Regiment from the 7th Guarded Desert-Sturm Division attacking the small Szerbaki, which it won. In the second pitch developed the 429th firearm Regiment mechanized from the 19th firearm Division. The assault troops support Russian peculiar forces and drone operators "Lancet-3" and the kind Prince Wandał Nowgorodski of the 22nd Specnazu Brigade under the General Staff office (former GRU) , i.e. subordinates gene. Vladimir Alexeev.
From the footage available online to Ukrainian troops strong support with the impact of hundreds of drones is provided by the 422th Unmanned Flying Ship Battalion “Luftwaffe”. After respective days of dense fighting, the Russian troops captured small Szczerbaki, reached Stepovoje and stormed the last positions of Ukrainian Szczerbaki, thus breaking into 5 km, interrupting the first belt of Ukrainian defence on this section of the front.
Krzysztof Podgórski
