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Battles/wars War in Donbas Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Bednov ( Russian : Алекса́ндр Алекса́ндрович Бедно́в , Ukrainian : Олекса́ндр Олекса́ндрович Бєдно́в ; 29 August 1969 – 1 January 2015) was a former Soviet and Ukrainian militsiya officer and rebel commander of the self-proclaimed ...
The first battles in the raid began for the recapture of Lysychansk, located in the northwest of Luhansk Oblast.According to the operation's plan, the 95th Brigade units were to conduct raids and go to the southern outskirts of the city and from there start eliminating enemy units while the 24th Brigade advanced from the north.
Base Area 112 was a Viet Cong (VC) and People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) base area located in the mountains of Quảng Nam Province southwest of Da Nang near the area known to the Marines as the "Arizona Territory" The base was believed to support the PAVN 21st Regiment, 3rd Battalion, 68B Rocket Regiment, 2nd Battalion, 141st Regiment and command and support units.
Defenders of the base fired at it RPG-18 and RPG-22, but failed to beat it and the tank was able to leave the scene of the battle alone. At the same time, the military unit A-4176 was stormed, where as a result of the battle, the T-64BV of pro-Russian militants was lined up and captured. [16]
The base was defended by men from 5th Special Forces Detachments A-233 and A-236 and their Montagnard forces and elements of the 5th Battalion, 22nd Artillery and 1st Battalion, 92nd Artillery when it was subjected to a siege by the People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) 66th Regiment from 27 October to 1 November 1969. [2]
[265] [266] The incursion has been dubbed the "second battle of Kursk", in allusion to the 1943 battle in the same region. [267] [268] The offensive is also larger than earlier ground raids, with at least two brigades from the regular Ukrainian forces participating. These forces are mechanized, highly mobile and protected by significant air ...
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The Siege of Firebase Gloria was filmed on land that was contested by the New People's Army (NPA)—members of whom had been hired as security guards and extras—and Trenchard-Smith recalled that the Philippine government-owned helicopters that were to be used in battle scenes arrived half a day late, as their crews had been strafing NPA positions 100 miles north.