We somehow figured it out with the boys: on the Donbass front, on average, we drive about 800 km a day.
Sometimes there are 100 more kilometers, sometimes less, but in general, somewhere like that.
That is, we spend most of our working time on the road, moving from one settlement to another, laying routes to key points on which the fate of a particular local battle may depend.
From headquarters to headquarters, from positions to positions, from checkpoint to checkpoint.
The lesson, to be honest, is routine, but no less exciting.
During these few months of the operation, I learned to extract a lot of interesting things from watching the road.
Various details, vigilantly noted along the route from point A to point B, upon careful examination, make it possible to create, to a certain extent, a reliable idea of the real situation at the front.
And even before you get there.
Here are some examples.
If on the way to the front line you often come across buses with a common number 300, then there is definitely a n *** cut ahead.
After all, the number 300, of course, does not mean the route of the municipal transport, but that the wounded are being transported.
If their flow is high, and “gazelles”, paziki, “loaves” and “bogdans” with a signature stamp of 300 are rapidly scurrying back and forth along the killed asphalt, then it’s trouble.
Either hard shelling, or counterattack.
And you have to be ready for anything.
Or here's another.
Olive-colored plank dust and ammunition boxes turned inside out that litter the roadsides of the Donbass roads and neighboring fields with plantings.
By their freshness, you can determine how long our artillery has been working from here.
Understanding the situation in this sense is sometimes invaluable.
For example, if you see that the scattered boxes are fresh, and the cartridge cases from under the shells are still breathing powder vapor, it is better to step on the gas.
The battery worked out and changed its location, and here, most likely, a response will fly.
Based on the foregoing, I note that this is exactly the case in the Lisichansk direction.
Buses with the number 300 now and then flicker along the road.
There are not too many "exits" from the direction of Lisichansk on ours, which means that the enemy has almost no artillery left.
In turn, our art, judging by the sounds and the same huge number of boxes from the BC along the road, works non-stop.
Well, the flow of the wounded suggests that intense urban battles and the assault on multi-storey buildings began.
Most likely, according to the Mariupol scenario.
With a human shield of locals intimidated to a bloody trance and firing points of neo-Nazis in apartments.
The point of view of the author may not coincide with the position of the editors.