A lonely Russian tank that rolls towards the Ukrainian lines in which organization of Ukrainian drones “a very unfortunate suicide” denies the dangerous state of the Russian army while the broader war of Russia opposed to Ukraine moves towards its fourth year.
There are so many Ukrainian drones everywhere, all the time, along the 800-mile front line in Ukraine and western Russia, that the Russian armored cars cannot leave their hidden position without attracting the drones’ fatal attention.
Where the Russians are gaining ground—and to be clear, they are gaining ground—they’re mostly doing so on foot, and suffering staggering losses.
On or shortly before Tuesday, a lone Russian tank traveled down a dirt road toward the line of contact outside the village of Kurdyumivka, 3 miles north of the ruins of Toretsk in Donetsk Oblast, eastern Ukraine. . Russian armies are besieging the city of Pokrovsk, just south of Kurdyumivka, and also the city of Chasiv Yar, north of Kurdyumivka.
We don’t know precisely which seat supported the armored car. Anyway, the lone vehicle didn’t pass far. “The fate of this piece of iron is obvious,” the Ukrainian drone organization in Phoenix reported. “Our guys dismantled it down to the smallest detail. “
The number of drones that harassed the tank speaks to the abundance of small flying robots on the front line. Four explosive drones in the first person chased and hit the tank, even though it all immobilized it. A fifth drone, a heavier bomber model, dropped grenades on the stranded tank to eventually destroy it. It is unclear if any of the 3 or 4 members of the Russian team survived.
It is difficult to say why the team, or, more precisely, the team’s commander, knew that a single tank can be opened in open terrain to large sunlight within the diversity of Ukrainian drones. A Russian Blogger mockingly described Russian tanks commanders who continue to order mechanized attacks such as “geniuses. “
In sending vehicles and their crews on pointless “banzai attacks” across the drone-patrolled no-man’s-land, the tank commanders gain nothing, lose everything and “provide uplifting content for the armed forces of Ukraine,” the blogger wrote.
Indeed, the abstract destruction of this lonely Russian tank is material for the social media team of the Phoenix drones group.
The fact that the Russians can no longer deploy tanks with full protection does not mean that they cannot continue advancing towards Pokrovsk and CHASIV YAR. This means that they will probably continue attacking on foot and paying blood for the captured meter.
According to the Ukrainian president. Volodymyr Zelensky, at least 30,000 Russian infantry soldiers, were killed and wounded while seemed, and more commonly without good fortune, to expel 20,000 Ukrainian infantry of the 250 square miles that the Ukrainians dug into the Oblast of Koursk, in Russia Western in August.
This represents a 50% casualty rate for the Russian-North Korean force at Kursk, which likely would have peaked at 60,000 troops. The Ukrainians are also suffering losses and are struggling to keep their frontline brigades fully manned. But Ukrainian losses are much lighter.
Despite the shocking bloodshed, the Russian military in Ukraine has slowly grown to a new top of at least 600,000 soldiers, according to Zelensky. This is up from about 400,000 two years ago.
Some 800,000 Ukrainian troops oppose this, but the Ukrainians have to garrison the entire country, while the Russians are concentrated in Kursk and Donetsk, giving the Russians a three-to-one advantage, or more, in many of the top sectors.
There are apparent cracks in the Kremlin’s hard-working system. It is without explanation why, last fall, the Russian crusade army in Kursk welcomed a full frame of the North Korean army with 12,000 soldiers. But for the moment, the Kremlin still has enough troops, and the preference to exchange their lives for small but normal ones in eastern Ukraine.
What the Kremlin doesn’t have is a lot of tanks, or any means of using them to meaningful effect on a battlefield humming with drones.
Sources:
1. Phoenix Drone Group
2. Volodymyr Zelensky (and here)
3. WarTranslated
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