Ukrainian Forces Defeated Russians On Motorcycles Near Vuhledar

The invaders fell under the "death harvester".

Fighting to get enough new armored vehicles to replace the roughly 16,000 vehicles lost in Ukraine, the Russian military fell into despair this spring and began equipping assault squads with cheap off-road motorcycles, Forbes reported.

The theory is that soldiers on fast off-road motorcycles can outrun thousands of tiny Ukrainian drones that swarm over the 700-mile front line every day.

“Sometimes it works. While the Russian offensive in the north that began on May 9 quickly stalled in the town of Vovchansk, a few miles south of the Russian-Ukrainian border, Russian troops numbering about 50,000 in Ukraine have managed to advance several miles in several sectors in recent weeks," analysts wrote.

"And sometimes attacks on motorcycles turn into bloody massacres for Russians. On June 28, a large group of assault bikers, it seems, dozens attacked the 72nd Mechanized Brigade of the Ukrainian Army near Vuhledar in southern Ukraine," the article reads.

According to the Russian milblogger Sladkov, the goal was to bypass the Ukrainian position and cut them off.

"There is a blow to the Ukrainians in the back, or rather from the rear," he wrote before the attack.

But the Ukrainians attacked the Russian convoy, which also included T-80 tanks and other armored vehicles, using drones and, apparently, missiles and artillery. Buried mines may have further exacerbated the destruction.

"When the smoke cleared, the Russian troops were laying in ruins. The 72nd Mechanized Brigade said it hit 16 tanks, 34 combat vehicles and 19 motorcycles, and killed or seriously wounded more than 800 Russian soldiers," the experts said.

The Russian command "deliberately threw manpower under the Ukrainian death harvester, having no chance of survival," said Ukrainian milblogger Yuri Butusov.

"Unfortunately for the Russians, the assault on motorcycles in Vuhledar was not the only unsuccessful attack in late June and early July. On Monday, analyst Andrew Perpetua counted 25 Russian motorcycles destroyed in recent battles," they added.

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