Four years after the fall of Mariupol, Ukraine’s Azov Brigade has re-emerged as one of the country’s most capable military formations, shifting its focus to long-range strikes against Russian military infrastructure and supply routes linked to the occupied city.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
According to the Ukrainian military, Azov drones recently struck targets in and around Mariupol, including electrical substations, repair facilities and a sanctioned vessel in the city’s port as part of a broader campaign to disrupt Russia’s military logistics. Chief of Staff Arsen Dmytryk said the brigade plans to continue similar operations, describing the liberation of Mariupol as “a long game.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n“If it takes 20 years, we will spend 20 years planning, waiting, preparing,” Dmytryk said. “But when the time comes, we must be ready. I believe we will get it (Mariupol) back. It’s only a matter of time.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
Military analysts say the strikes are gradually weakening Russia’s supply network by forcing its forces to reroute logistics and expend additional resources. The brigade, now expanded into a corps with multiple brigades and advanced drone units, has become one of Ukraine’s leading combat formations. Reflecting on Russia’s attempts to destroy the unit, Dmytryk added: <\/p>\n\n\n\n
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“When we were in captivity, the Muscovites told us they wanted to destroy us, destroy us, destroy us. But somehow their ‘destruction’ has instead continued to expand Azov.”<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Four years after the fall of Mariupol, Ukraine’s Azov Brigade has re-emerged as one of the country’s most capable military formations, shifting its focus to long-range strikes against Russian military infrastructure and supply routes linked to the occupied city. According to the Ukrainian military, Azov drones recently struck targets in and around Mariupol, including electrical […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22933,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsreporters.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsreporters.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsreporters.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsreporters.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsreporters.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22932"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsreporters.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22932\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22934,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsreporters.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22932\/revisions\/22934"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsreporters.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsreporters.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsreporters.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsreporters.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}