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Commentary by Russian military journalist is in italics.
[ColonelCassad] Opinion on the liberation of Chasov Yara from immediate participants in the fighting in the city.
To the conversation about the capture of Chasov Yar. Our pirate gang also took part in this crazy regatta.
Now it is possible to talk about it, the event was almost a year ago. How fast time flies! And then, in the hot summer of 2024, everything just started. Brave guys from [Russian] 98th Airborne Division jumped into the "Novy" district, which is located (or was located? - there are only stumps left of the district, thanks to the fighting) east of the Seversky Donets canal.
At that time, the canal was already quite dry and did not cause any particular difficulties in crossing it on foot, but there were problems for the equipment. So at that moment, a classic position happened, when neither side could really do anything with the enemy.
Attempts by the paratroopers to jump over the unfortunate water-shit-sludge barrier
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According to our estimates, at that time, more than 150 (!!!) enemy FPV drones were operating in the area against us. However, we also drank a lot of their blood then.
At that time, in our then still company, there were already very well prepared and motivated groups of drone operators who agreed to an adventurous, essentially, operation.
Their audacity and recklessness went off the scale: a small group of us had to jump into Novy on foot and on quad bikes, leaving our base positions in Bakhmut. The adventure consisted in the fact that the route ran through Berkhovka, Bohdanovka and "Pydorles", over which the enemy's drones were incessantly controlling around the clock.
The amount of burnt equipment on the route was simply unthinkable and I really didn't want to join this pile. Not without complications, but in general the operation was successful: the group was established in full and began to work.
Thanks to the fact that we were right under the nose of the enemy, the result was immediate: I am sure that the enemy did not expect such an impudent attitude of our pilots right into their own belly.
The landing time of our FPV drones was not even minutes, but tens of seconds. Naturally, this had a positive effect on the conduct of reconnaissance: when the Mavik can continuously detect the enemy's positions for half an hour (the priority was precisely the calculations of the Khokhlov drone carriers) - the result will be!
Literally, in a few days of work, we managed to significantly reduce the number of enemy operators of flying filth in the direction. And the discovery and disruption of the plans of the enemy DRG by the forces of our infantry reconnaissance group put a fat point in this adventure. Even after that, we continued to work with drones in the Chasov Yarskyi direction, although the detachment was transferred in its entirety a little further north, beyond Soledar.
PS, by the way, the photo shows one of the houses where we had to work. During the two days that our group was there, 23 155-mm shells flew into it. However, kudos to the Soviet builders: the basement of the house survived, although the house itself lost 2 entrances almost entirely.
Air control and elimination of enemy formations of FPV-drones and quadrocopters of seeders plays a huge role in ensuring the success of offensive actions.
PS. It is remembered that the enemy did not hesitate to throw Haimars and JDAMs at such houses in Chasov Yar.