29 Jul: Inevitable Finally Happened! RUSSIAN BRIDGEHEAD COLLAPSED In Vovchansk | War in Ukraine

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Today there are a lot of updates from the Kharkiv direction.

The most interesting updates come from the area of Vovchansk. Here, the Russian bridgehead in the south of the town has finally collapsed, forcing them to reorganize and change their plans.

The primary Russian plan was to use their bridgehead to advance toward the southeastern part of the town to cut off Ukrainian forces in northern Vovchansk. If successful, this plan would isolate the strongest Ukrainian fortifications at the Citadel, complicating the situation for Ukrainian fighters. This development would likely force the remaining Ukrainian forces in southern Vovchansk to retreat, as Russian troops could establish fire control over the town from both the Citadel and the Aggregate plant. Consequently, this would enable the Russians to stabilize the front in Vovchansk, potentially allowing them to redeploy troops to the town’s flanks to thwart the Ukrainian plan of encirclement.

To implement their plan, the Russians had to organize logistics for their bridgehead to the south. They control the main bridge in the town along Sobornaya Street, which, despite being partially demolished, serves as the sole supply route providing ammunition and critical supplies to the Russian bridgehead. The entire Russian bridgehead spans approximately five hundred meters in width, leaving little room to establish additional pontoon crossings, so any attempt to cross the river is easily detected and whwarted by Ukrainian drones.

Due to drone surveillance and constant strikes on the bridge, the Russians avoided using motor vehicles to transport supplies to the southern bridgehead, as these would likely be destroyed. Instead, they deployed small groups of infantrymen carrying supplies on their backs to the south bank. These small infantry squads attract less attention from drones, especially if they maintain distances between each other, making them harder to target simultaneously. The bridge linking the southern bridgehead was under intense fire from Ukrainian forces, making the movement of Russian troops with supplies extremely challenging.

Although the Russians managed to conceal their troops and maintain a stalemate, they could not deploy additional reinforcements for planned attacks to the south. The Ukrainians outnumber the Russians in the area, forcing the Russians to hold their positions, where they are often located and struck by Ukrainian forces. Additionally, providing medical assistance and evacuating wounded or killed Russian troops is nearly impossible due to the presence of Ukrainian kamikaze drones in the area.

This situation gradually led to severe complications, where the inability to provide medical assistance to the wounded and remove corpses resulted in a dire epidemiological situation. The lack of medical care for injured fighters led to wound infections, further worsening their conditions and causing otherwise preventable deaths. Additionally, the corpses of dead Russian soldiers that couldn’t be buried or removed deteriorated hygienic conditions at Russian frontline positions, increasing the risk of disease spread.

A video published by a Russian fighter near the Citadel confirms the deteriorating conditions with wounded and killed all around. The Russian fighter here talks about the terrible smell of corpses littering his position and how the flies around annoy him. Most of the holdout he was at was not shown because there were too many corpses. The original, uncensored combat footage of all operations can be found on our Telegram channel through the link in the description.

Due to these issues, the Russians could not scale up their offensive, leading to the collapse of their bridgehead south of Vovchansk. With the Russians pushed out of southern Vovchansk, the Ukrainians stabilized this part of the front along the river and escalated their operations north of the river, aiming to push the Russians out of Vovchansk entirely.

Overall, heavy Russian losses that strained their logistics and combat capability forced them to pull back. These developments could create an opportunity for the Ukrainians to launch a decisive attack north of the town to push out the Russians. This situation would enable the Ukrainians to hold the northern part of the city at the Citadel, fixing Russian forces in that area and away from the flanks of Vovchansk. With Russian defenses…

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  2. Moving forward openly, at high casualty stakes? Gaining ruins your own drones with art art just completely demolished?? That seems to be Russian idea about wafare, don't think Ukraine's gonna pincer here. Good luck.

  4. These videos are becoming more than a bit click-baity. This is the latest of many videos where the thumbnail is not supported by the content of the video.

  5. You are doing so well now. Look at the ground you are winning back daily. Keep up the good work. You are doing so much better since you called up the women and oldies to serve

  7. Man, these newsreports always make it seem Ukraine is about to win and then two weeks later… BOOM! The Russians make headway. Like wth?

  9. So Ukrainians had a group of Russians surrounded in the aggregate plant and fire control over a street and Russians still broke through.

  12. The entire line is getting pushed inwards deeper into Ukraine and this channel focuses on a couple city blocks with 100 Russian men trapped. The bs bot comments and scripts are more ridiculous.

  19. Meanwhile Russia has advanced 8 kilometers in 2 weeks near Prokovsk. Things are looking real bad because the so called 8 brigade reserve has never existed….

  28. I would love to see full-map updates, or atleast longer videos. You always start with saying there is "a lot of interesting updates," but it seems you only pick out one of them. According to deepstate a lot is happening on the front right now, and it would be great to hear from someone, who has been following this war for a long time, what's happening.

  34. Membership cancelled. Click-baity title, followed by an overview of the past few weeks, completely skipping on the subject of the clickbait.

  38. 2:36 Why are they having difficulties evacuating the wounded under threat of drone attacks? Treatment and evacuation of the wounded is a right under the Geneva Conventions so long as they meet the conditions required of them (no ulterior activity, unarmed medics/stretcher bearers, and displaying the Red Cross).

    I support Ukraine’s cause 100% but I hope this was a case of Russian obstinacy and not Ukrainian convention violations.

  39. Wait, so this was only the bridge further into Vovchansk, that Russians recently gained… They still have the chemical plant in the pocket and are supplying it?

  40. Buddies.. we need to talk.. I'm as pro ukrainian as an American living in Europe can be.. but.. just talking about how "good things are going" here and there while for example the 47th once again has to get their *** kicked somewhere else in order to stop the orcs is not helping our cause.. for me personally I took my consequences and unsubbed.. I'd love to come back here one day but for now I honestly don't want to hear all those "great news"… there are brave men suffering and dying because we in the west are not getting our ** done in supporting ukraine

  43. Mr RFU is well-spoken and intelligent. His use of technical language such as aggregate and epidemiology demonstrate a high level of understanding and ability.

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  46. I guess the ZSU conditions on North bank (Citadel) are similar to the Ruzzian conditions on the South bank. The only difference that ZSU relies on drones/artilliary and struggles to destroy Ruzzian fortifications in Aggregate pant while Ruzzia uses gliding bombs to steadily demolish ZSU fortifications in Citadel. As expected Putin's Kharkiv offence fails to reach city and came with huge losses, but it is stretching ZSU defense close to collapse near Avdiivka and Chasiv Yar…

  48. LOL – Im not pro-rus. This is the next movie, I think – 3 or 4, with "decisive attack", "big counterattack" and so on – and in the next week there will be the next "great opportunity to big counterattack", and the orcs are massively dead or wounded, but at the same place, or even in better place. What about a big success in aggregate plant – the UA had more troops, more artillery and? And rus are now meters away from those place.
    Please – be fair, not only pro-ukrainian… I dont need such infos – why there are no infos about critical losses in Urozaine, losses of Werbowe or Rubizne? Why there are 3 per week such "news" and there are no infos about situation on the frontline?

  49. 🐹🍁Pas de pitié les boys , laissé les pourrir avec les cadavres de leurs camarade orcs et blessé , ils ont toujours le choix de se viré contre leurs dirigeants 💙💛

  50. Russian soldier: "Our conditions are terrible here!"

    Any sane person: "Sorry, I appear to be out of fucks to give."

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