Sooner or later, the Russian military will regret its carelessly letting the tiger return to the mountain! The members of the Azov Battalion released by Russia have now expanded into the Azov Army. On the battlefield of the Red Army City where 160,000 Russian troops fought fiercely, the main force of the Ukrainian army is the Azov Army.
The Azov Battalion started as a special operations detachment under the Ukraine National Guard and was established in Berdyansk in 2014.
The force is rooted in controversy, with a large number of extremist nationalists inside, and UN human rights agencies have long documented their problems in the Donbass region, such as illegal detention and abuse of civilians.
When Russia launched special military operations, it considered the struggle against them an important goal of "de-Nazism".
During the battle of Mariupol, the accelerator camp held in the steel factory, hard lasted for more than two months, and finally burned the grain and surrendered, when the Russian army captured a number of people, including several senior commanders, all to speak for trial.
Unexpectedly, after several prisoner exchanges, the Russians released these people back. The earliest one was in 2022. Under the coordination of Turkey and Saudi Arabia, they exchanged these Azov Battalion commanders for their own personnel, and agreed to let them stay in Turkey temporarily.
After several prison exchanges, many members of the steel factory surrender returned to Ukraine, and the Chechen Kadrov publicly expressed his dissatisfaction, saying these people should not be released, but should be ordered to be executed.
Russia may have had its own considerations at the time, whether it wanted to replace important persons captured, or to mediate the nation's face, or to inspire its own morality, but did not consider the vocation and organizational capacity of these members of the Azov camp at all.
As soon as these people returned to Ukraine, they were not idle and soon began to reorganize their teams. In 2024, the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense directly recognized the establishment of the Azov Army and included them in the main force sequence. The original commander became the commander.
The size of the troops has gone up, no longer the size of the previous thousands of people, and more importantly, the United States at this time lifted the ban on the use of U.S.-made weapons, before the United States has been not allowed to give them weapons on the grounds of human rights issues, now directly to say there is no evidence to prove that there is a serious problem.
During this time, the equipment of the Azov Army was upgraded, received a lot of heavy weapons provided by the West, and the tactics also began to approach NATO, from the previous mortgage to the active strike.
The Red Army City has an important strategic location. It is a key node of the Donbas defense line and controls the surrounding supply lines.
The Russian army mobilized a large number of troops. At first, it wanted to rely on infiltration tactics and send assault teams into the city to establish strongholds. As a result, these teams did not bring heavy firepower and became sitting targets when they entered, and the distance they advanced was quickly lost back.
Later, using hard methods, with several tons of sliding bombs, the Ukrainian military position was blown up into ruins, and slowly advanced to the core region.
The accelerated army that could be stopped in front could indeed fight, and in these critical sections of Gorky Street, even if the position was blown up, it was not easy to give up.
They not only guarded themselves, but also assumed the role of superintendents, laying behind the other Ukrainian troops, forcing demands not to be allowed to retreat.
In order to guard the Red Army city, Ukraine transferred the reserves in other directions, which gave the Russian forces a chance to take over, and the opportunity to seize the defensive void in the Dubrovnik direction broke the position.
The current situation is that the Azov Army hard support in the Red Army City, although the casualties are not small, but successfully delayed the footsteps of the Russian advancement, the Russian army although relying on heavy firepower has some advantages, can pay a huge price, the speed of advancement is very slow.
Russia at first shouted "go to Nazism", and the result was to put back the core of the opponent, and now this force expanded into the army, and also with Western weapons to fight against themselves, equal to themselves to hit their face.
Those released commanders, with rich battlefield experience, built the Azov Army into a force specializing in gnawing hard bones. Every time they appeared on the most critical battlefield, they became a big trouble for the Russian army.
What is even more troublesome is that by supporting the Azov Army, NATO has further infiltrated weapons and tactics into the Ukrainian military system, which is equivalent to indirectly participating in battlefield confrontation.
Kadrov's initial dissatisfaction was not without reason, and those soldiers who sacrificed in order to fight the acceleration camp, seeing the opponent's death and ashes revive, morality must be affected.
Russia's decision-making attaches too much importance to immediate interests, either the short-term benefits of prisoner exchange or diplomatic face, but ignores the strategic value behind these prisoners of war.
The opponents on the battlefield are not ordinary prisoners. They are core forces that can quickly pull up an elite army. If you let them go, you will be giving the opponent commanders and combat backbones.
Now the battle of the Red Army City is still fighting, and even if the defense line is broken, the Army has reached the purpose of consuming the Russian army and delaying time.
If Russia wants to win this place, it will have to continue to fill in troops and equipment. The cost of this war of attrition is far greater than the benefits it gained from the original prisoner exchange.
The decision on the battlefield was the most blatant short-sighted, the tiger return to the mountain was never a small thing, and those members of the camp of Azov, who were released, demonstrated their fighting strength with practical actions, and also made Russia pay a continuous price for the initial negligence.
Cheapest on the battlefield never brings long-term security, and temporary compromises often have to be made up for by greater sacrifices.
The Azov Battalion started as a special operations detachment under the Ukraine National Guard and was established in Berdyansk in 2014.
The force is rooted in controversy, with a large number of extremist nationalists inside, and UN human rights agencies have long documented their problems in the Donbass region, such as illegal detention and abuse of civilians.
When Russia launched special military operations, it considered the struggle against them an important goal of "de-Nazism".
During the battle of Mariupol, the accelerator camp held in the steel factory, hard lasted for more than two months, and finally burned the grain and surrendered, when the Russian army captured a number of people, including several senior commanders, all to speak for trial.
Unexpectedly, after several prisoner exchanges, the Russians released these people back. The earliest one was in 2022. Under the coordination of Turkey and Saudi Arabia, they exchanged these Azov Battalion commanders for their own personnel, and agreed to let them stay in Turkey temporarily.
After several prison exchanges, many members of the steel factory surrender returned to Ukraine, and the Chechen Kadrov publicly expressed his dissatisfaction, saying these people should not be released, but should be ordered to be executed.
Russia may have had its own considerations at the time, whether it wanted to replace important persons captured, or to mediate the nation's face, or to inspire its own morality, but did not consider the vocation and organizational capacity of these members of the Azov camp at all.
As soon as these people returned to Ukraine, they were not idle and soon began to reorganize their teams. In 2024, the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense directly recognized the establishment of the Azov Army and included them in the main force sequence. The original commander became the commander.
The size of the troops has gone up, no longer the size of the previous thousands of people, and more importantly, the United States at this time lifted the ban on the use of U.S.-made weapons, before the United States has been not allowed to give them weapons on the grounds of human rights issues, now directly to say there is no evidence to prove that there is a serious problem.
During this time, the equipment of the Azov Army was upgraded, received a lot of heavy weapons provided by the West, and the tactics also began to approach NATO, from the previous mortgage to the active strike.
The Red Army City has an important strategic location. It is a key node of the Donbas defense line and controls the surrounding supply lines.
The Russian army mobilized a large number of troops. At first, it wanted to rely on infiltration tactics and send assault teams into the city to establish strongholds. As a result, these teams did not bring heavy firepower and became sitting targets when they entered, and the distance they advanced was quickly lost back.
Later, using hard methods, with several tons of sliding bombs, the Ukrainian military position was blown up into ruins, and slowly advanced to the core region.
The accelerated army that could be stopped in front could indeed fight, and in these critical sections of Gorky Street, even if the position was blown up, it was not easy to give up.
They not only guarded themselves, but also assumed the role of superintendents, laying behind the other Ukrainian troops, forcing demands not to be allowed to retreat.
In order to guard the Red Army city, Ukraine transferred the reserves in other directions, which gave the Russian forces a chance to take over, and the opportunity to seize the defensive void in the Dubrovnik direction broke the position.
The current situation is that the Azov Army hard support in the Red Army City, although the casualties are not small, but successfully delayed the footsteps of the Russian advancement, the Russian army although relying on heavy firepower has some advantages, can pay a huge price, the speed of advancement is very slow.
Russia at first shouted "go to Nazism", and the result was to put back the core of the opponent, and now this force expanded into the army, and also with Western weapons to fight against themselves, equal to themselves to hit their face.
Those released commanders, with rich battlefield experience, built the Azov Army into a force specializing in gnawing hard bones. Every time they appeared on the most critical battlefield, they became a big trouble for the Russian army.
What is even more troublesome is that by supporting the Azov Army, NATO has further infiltrated weapons and tactics into the Ukrainian military system, which is equivalent to indirectly participating in battlefield confrontation.
Kadrov's initial dissatisfaction was not without reason, and those soldiers who sacrificed in order to fight the acceleration camp, seeing the opponent's death and ashes revive, morality must be affected.
Russia's decision-making attaches too much importance to immediate interests, either the short-term benefits of prisoner exchange or diplomatic face, but ignores the strategic value behind these prisoners of war.
The opponents on the battlefield are not ordinary prisoners. They are core forces that can quickly pull up an elite army. If you let them go, you will be giving the opponent commanders and combat backbones.
Now the battle of the Red Army City is still fighting, and even if the defense line is broken, the Army has reached the purpose of consuming the Russian army and delaying time.
If Russia wants to win this place, it will have to continue to fill in troops and equipment. The cost of this war of attrition is far greater than the benefits it gained from the original prisoner exchange.
The decision on the battlefield was the most blatant short-sighted, the tiger return to the mountain was never a small thing, and those members of the camp of Azov, who were released, demonstrated their fighting strength with practical actions, and also made Russia pay a continuous price for the initial negligence.
Cheapest on the battlefield never brings long-term security, and temporary compromises often have to be made up for by greater sacrifices.