Roman Svitan: The War In Ukraine Has Become A Fight Between Drones And Infantry Saboteurs

Drones have completely changed the rules of combat.

The Ukrainian front is increasingly going underground: soldiers are burrowing into bunkers, and the sky above the contact line is a solid drone death zone. The new reality of the war in Ukraine is the dominance of drones, which are changing the very essence of combat operations, writes The Economist.

With the depth of the kill zone from UAVs reaching 15-20 kilometers, is it now possible to talk about advancing troops at all, or has the classic offensive already become suicidal? About it the site Charter97.org talked to the colonel of the AFU in reserve, military expert and pilot-instructor Roman Svitan:

- Classic offensive, as it was in the last millennium, in the Second World War, is definitely impossible - because of the formation of a "kill zone" on both sides. This used to be called the gray zone, and now it is called the death zone, because any movement in this space is immediately hit, and from different directions.

Naturally, the technique now becomes almost useless. That's why it's essentially unused. Basically, Russia is now taking offensive actions, while the AFU is on the defense. When the Russians try to attack using equipment, it ends badly for them. That is why they use mainly "manpower", applying the tactics of so-called tactical infiltration - when one, two, three, three, maximum five people try to get between the positions of the Ukrainian army.

If they manage to infiltrate and are not destroyed in the process - they accumulate in the rear and try to act until the AFU strikes them with other means of destruction.

Now it is really impossible to conduct large-scale offensive operations. The only possibility of using manpower is the described infiltration methods. Tactical techniques of cutting logistic routes with the help of drones are also actively used: supply, rotation, retreat. These techniques are actively used by both sides on the line of contact.

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