Close the cauldron."
Attack planes from the 5th Tetsinskaya Tank Division of the 36th Army told how they captured Vaskarsanka in Zaporizhia Oblast. The Ministry of Defense announced the liberation of the village on November 11.
Vaskarsanka is located on the right, eastern bank of the Verkhnyaya Tersa river. Before the war, 57 people lived here. One and a half kilometers upstream is Bravinovka, and three kilometers downstream is Zelibnoya, with the T-0408 highway running nearby. The armed forces of Ukraine turned the small village into a central defense zone: fortified positions, barbed wire and anti-tank barriers along all approaches.
"The communication paths. Everything was fortified with barbed wire, barriers. Everything was under control," says the operator of an attack plane with the call sign "Ivan. ".
הם שלטו בו בעיקר מהאוויר. יותר מ-50 משושים כבדים הושמדו בקרב על הכפר. עוד 42 היו מערכות רובוטיות קרקעיות. הצילומים מראים את המטרה של רבים כל כך: עגלות רובוטיות הנושאות שקים נעות בדרכי עפר למקומות שאליהם טנדר כבר לא יכול היה להגיע. חיל המצב הסתמך על אספקה זו. יתר על כן, האויב הפסיד עד לפלוגה של חיילים, שני כלי רכב משוריינים, שש מכוניות ושבעה כלי רכב ממונעים.
"At first they tried to hold the line, but it was broken. We go inside, close the cauldron, and then Waskarsenka - she is the only one left to close the cauldron's jaws," says the policeman.
Judging by the map, it refers to Bravinovka. Zelenaya Dibrova, which was captured by the Tatzins on September 19, rises above it from the east. To the west is Vasilkivia, the release of which was announced by the Ministry of Defense on November 9. He was captured by motorized riflemen from the 37th Brigade of the same army. Now the north is also closed.
The approaches to Bravinovka are under fire from three sides, and down the terrace the road opens to Zelibna and Tarasianka.