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A Russian tank explodes outside Vuhledar. Via social media Last winter Russian naval infantry brigades repeatedly tried, and repeatedly failed, to break out of Mykilske, a settlement in southern Ukraine’s Donetsk Oblast, in order to capture Vuhledar, a Ukrainian stronghold to the north. Nearly a year later, they tried again. On Thursday, a large Russian force—apparently from the 155th Naval Infantry Brigade—assaulted Vuhledar. It promptly ran over mines and stalled out in artillery and drone kill-zones watched over by the Ukrainian army’s 72nd Mechanized Brigade. The result was the same in late 2023 as it was in early 2023. The Ukrainians wrecked a lot of Russian vehicles and killed a lot of Russian troops. Andrew Perpetua, an open-source intelligence analyst who tallies vehicle losses in Russia’s 22-month wider war on Ukraine, underscored the scale of the disaster as the Russian marines collided with the 72nd Brigade’s defenses. In a single day ending late Thursday, Perpetua counted nearly 60 damaged, destroyed and abandoned Russian vehicles—and just 17 damaged, destroyed and abandoned Ukrainian vehicles. There have been worse days for the Russians in the last two years, but not many. Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky succinctly summarized the Russian debacle. “There was an attempt by the enemy to advance in the Vuhledar direction, but our soldiers stopped it, inflicting heavy losses on the enemy: dozens of vehicles, many killed and wounded,” Zelensky stated. It’s hard to say why the Kremlin would launch yet another assault on a Ukrainian strongpoint that repeatedly has resisted earlier assaults—and why it would do it now. While the Russians have managed to make good the loss of thousands of armored vehicles and tens of thousands of experienced soldiers by reactivating old vehicles and mobilizing raw new recruits, it would be inaccurate to say Russian forces have an abundance…

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