30th Anniversary of March Offensive | On the Other Side of Gumista: The Harsh Lessons of the March Offensive
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Mar 15, 2023, 6:36:22 AM3/15/23
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The March Offensive is the most tragic military operation in the history of the Patriotic War of the people of Abkhazia in 1992-1993. The offensive of Abkhaz troops, commanded by Colonel Sergei Dbar, began on the night of March 15-16. At 00:45, the Abkhazian troops launched an air and artillery strike on enemy targets, followed by a land offensive in several directions simultaneously.
On March 15, 1993 formations of the Abkhaz army crossed the Gumista river and captured strategically important heights near Sukhum. During the March battle for the capital of Abkhazia, 222 fighters of the Abkhaz Army perished, several hundred people were injured and 23 people were missing.
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Memorial Events for 30th Anniversary of March Offensive Will Be Held on March 15-16
Memorial events are set to take place on March 15-16, marking the 30th anniversary of the March offensive operation during the 1992-1993 Patriotic War of the people of Abkhazia.
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Memorial events are set to take place on March 15-16, marking the 30th anniversary of the March offensive operation during the 1992-1993 Patriotic War of the people of Abkhazia.
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Lost Battles: January and March 1993
taken from the book "Mobilizing in Uncertainty Collective Identities and War in Abkhazia", by Anastasia Shesterinina
Cornell University Press (2021) - Chapter 6, pp.170-172.
Indeed, the Abkhaz losses over the next year were dramatic. As the army was being formed during the war, rather than in preparation for it, training during fighting was inadequate to prepare fighters for battle. As a postwar assistant to the minister of defense confirms, “Creating an army is not easy. You need tens of years to create an army. I have been an assistant to the minister of defense for fifteen years, and I can say that something close to an army started to appear only ten years after. It used to be called an army in the past as well, but the qualities necessary to hold fighting operations as an army would require long schooling.”
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