Bobko
28 Aug 2024 #31
He is not BBC any more.
Thank you for this clarification!
Unfortunately, the city in question has still been lost. However, Leonid Ragozin no longer works for the BBC.
A year ago, cities of 10,000+ population would take many months to conquer, and cost an enormous amount of manpower.
Now they fall rather quickly.
What's changed (other than Ukraine diverting its most capable formations to Kursk)? Two words - glide bombs.
A typical artillery shell contains about 13 lbs of explosives. The glide bombs being used across the frontline, often have 1,300 lbs of explosives.
A building that required many direct hits by artillery, and even then was taken only after brutal room-to-room fighting - now can be collapsed with a single bomb - burying all the Ukrainian soldiers with it.