15 Oct: Storming Terrikon: Insane Russian 0% Survival Rate Attack - Reporting from Ukraine

[TexasTowelie]

Day 599: Oct 15

Today, there are a lot of updates from the Avdiivka direction.

When it comes to the northern part of the region, the freshest combat footage revealed that Russians suffered a devastating defeat. And this is not surprising because, as it turned out, Russian forces conducted an insane frontal attack on Terrikon.

If we look closer, we can see that Terrikon is a huge artificial mountain right in front of the heavily fortified industrial area of Avdiivka. This mountain was built from waste from the coal mines in the region, and over the years, it has been transformed into an incredibly powerful fortification. As revealed by the geolocated videos, Russian forces were sent to storm the frontal wall of this mountain, and the Russian infantry was supposed to climb it while the Russian tanks lined up in front of it and suppressed Ukrainian fire.

Ukrainian fighters from the 110 Mechanized Brigade that was responsible for holding defense on Terrikon published a video showing how Russians were sending one column of tanks and armored fighting vehicles after another. The infantry vehicles and personnel carriers brought hundreds of troops to the contact line. The troops were landing in the tree lines and waited until other units got to the front to conduct a massive assault.

Ukrainians obviously saw every Russian move from the heights of Terrikon and fired at the approaching Russian columns. Dozens of armored vehicles one by one got destroyed by grenade- and mine-dropping drones, for which the 110 Brigade is famous. Ukrainian fighters from the 55 Artillery Brigade augmented the fire by unleashing high-caliber shells on the Russian forces. Some assault units also ran into mines, where their conquest immediately ended. In fact, multiple Russian analysts claimed that Ukrainian mines have slowed down Russian advances significantly.

Nevertheless, due to the sheer number of troops, the Russians managed to accumulate enough forces and start storming the Terrikon. Today, some Russian sources published a video showing exactly what Russian soldiers saw when they went to storm basically a huge flat wall. Moreover, Ukrainians equipped it with machine gun positions and did not let the Russian infantry get close. Russians opened fire at Ukrainian machine gun positions from tanks and ATGMs but could not sustain it for a long time as they quickly got targeted with artillery or drones. Eventually, only one Russian soldier managed to get to the mountain. He managed to climb almost 3 quarters of the distance to the first floor before losing his life.

So, the attack on Terrikon was a complete catastrophe. US National Security Council Spokesman John Kirby commented on the recent development in Avdiivka and stated that Russian forces once again resorted to human wave tactics, wherein the Russian military uses masses of poorly trained and equipped Russian soldiers to attempt to advance – just like during their failed offensive last year.

In the meantime, Russian sources started raising the alarm that Russian forces have huge problems with medical support. One Russian source claimed that there is a stark shortage of surgeons in occupied Horlivka and Donetsk near Avdiivka and called on Russian doctors to travel to the front to help treat wounded Russian soldiers as soon as possible.

Ukrainian Tavriisk Group of Forces Spokesman Colonel Oleksandr Shtupun reported that the majority of Russian casualties in the Avdiivka direction are due to low-quality medical treatment and local hospitals reaching capacity. In fact, Russian volunteers operating in Donetsk urgently changed the focus of their campaigns and started asking everyone to help with plastic bags for dead bodies because hundreds of bodies are coming in from Avdiivka, and there are simply not enough plastic bags in the hospitals.

A Russian volunteer soldier expressed his discontent about how their commanders are conducting the offensive operation and said that they could potentially compress the Ukrainian perimeter by capturing less fortified Ukrainian-held territory near Avdiivka instead of literally bashing their heads against the wall. Unfortunately for Russians, the Russian generals have no interest in such limited advances and try to speed up offensive efforts at any cost.

[captain queeg]

1. The Russian army seems to be repeating the methods they used in the early days of the nazi invasion

of WWII. Human waves and repeated frontal assaults. Back then it was Stalin who kept pushing his generals to attack no matter the cost. Now Putin is following the same playbook. Stalin started listening to his generals after awhile. Putin doesn’t seem to care enough to make any adjustments. And back in 41 the Russians were fighting for their homeland. Now they are the invaders so I’m guessing a lot of soldiers aren’t all that motivated. I don’t think we are necessarily getting all the truth from the Ukrainian side but it sure seems like the Russian people are being greatly misled so young men died for the old politicians’ egos.

[RVN VET71]

2. The saying in Vietnam was

Old soldiers never die; young ones do.

Unfortunately, for Russia the statement is no longer true. Under Putin, it's: Putin never dies; everybody else is cannon fodder.

His generals blindly and fearfully follow his orders even if it mean losing thousands of young Russians in futile and disastrous assaults against virtually impregnable positions. The generals order these attacks primarily because Putin orders them and they do not wish to be called to the rear where there are buildings with open windows.