Ukraine's National Guardsmen repel 13 Russian assaults near Selydove, wiping out 3 Russian companies – video

The Russians are attempting to maintain active assault operations on the Pokrovsk front; on 22 October, Ukrainian National Guard troops thwarted 13 Russian attempts to storm their positions in the Selydove area of Donetsk Oblast.

Source: Ukraine’s National Guard press service; Ruslan Muzychuk, spokesman for the National Guard of Ukraine, in a comment to Ukrainska Pravda 

Quote: "This day, in the area of responsibility of the units of the National Guard, the enemy conducted 13 attempts to assault. All the while actively using infantry.

Our units repelled these attacks, inflicting significant losses on the enemy: 307 people (157 of them irretrievable losses of the enemy)."

Details: The National Guard's troops are actively undertaking a counter-battery struggle, using drones with great accuracy to strike the Russian equipment and logistics.

According to Ruslan Muzychuk, the spokesman for Ukraine's National Guard, the Russian army has begun to employ artillery more intensively on the Pokrovsk front in recent days to suppress positions across the whole width of the front, including the Selydove area.

During the day on 22 October, the Russians fired 559 shells from artillery and multiple-launch rocket systems on positions where the brigade and National Guard units were performing their duties. The officer says that in the spring, this number was around 200.

Under the cover of artillery fire, the Russians are attempting to launch assaults from three directions at once, with the majority of efforts concentrated south of Selydove and against the settlement of Tsukuryne.

Muzychuk added there are also Russian initiatives to gather soldiers in accumulation areas in order to ensure the continued march of infantry groups of 5-7 military personnel without the backup of armoured vehicles at 20-30 minute intervals. To do this, the opponent uses forest belts and physical features of the area as cover.

Quote: "This day, the Russians attacked Selydove 13 times, employing a large number of men. The guards destroyed 307 attackers, repelling these attacks (157 of which were irretrievable enemy casualties, and the rest being injured). This is actually three companies.

In addition, guards along the front line destroyed 1 tank, 4 armoured vehicles, 8 car equipment, 2 armaments warehouses, and 2 electronic warfare stations over the last day.

In recent weeks, the enemy has considerably boosted its use of electronic warfare, complicating aerial surveillance efforts. However, our UAV operators develop ways for the effective usage of drones."

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