"The result is zero": tank attacks of the Russian army in the war in Ukraine are called "suicide"

Tiny FPV drones have made large-scale tank attacks by the Russian army virtually suicidal along the entire active front line in the 35-month war in Ukraine. The propagandists themselves admit that every time Russian regiments try to attack with armored vehicles, "the result is zero."

But this does not mean that the Russians cannot advance: they leave the equipment behind and go on foot to make "meaty" assaults. Journalist David Axe writes about this in an article for Forbes.

"In fact, they are advancing - especially south of the fortress city of Pokrovsk in Donetsk Oblast in eastern Ukraine and along the edges of the 400-square-kilometer ledge that strong Ukrainian forces carved out of Russia's Kursk Oblast in August," the article says.

The author quoted a Russian blogger in a post translated by the Estonian analyst WarTranslated. In the post, the propagandist said that Russian "infantry, supported by artillery and drones, is slowly but surely taking line after line of forest."

"The Russians are leaning toward the new infantry doctrine primarily in part to cut down on equipment losses, but also because of their general inability to overcome a trained Ukrainian defense backed by pervasive intelligence and drone strikes," explained Michael Coffman, a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington.

According to analysts, scattered infantry is more difficult to attack than long lines of vehicles, so the occupiers are resorting to small group assaults. However, some Russian commanders continue to try to attack with tanks, armored personnel carriers, and improvised combat vehicles, including ordinary vans, cars, and buggies.

"But 'no one reaches the goal, no soldier is in a hurry, and the enemy is not crushed by the fire of auto guns,'" Forbes recounted the complaints of a Russian blogger who sarcastically called the Russian army officers behind these "suicidal races" of the occupiers "geniuses."

"By sending vehicles and their crews on senseless "banzai attacks" along a neutral strip patrolled by drones, Russian tank commanders gain nothing, lose everything, and provide inspiring content for the Armed Forces, whose drones record the destruction of every Russian column," the author of the publication emphasized.

As OBOZ.UA previously reported, military expert Oleksandr Kovalenko noted that in 2024, the Russian army suffered the largest losses in its existence. This includes both personnel and military equipment of the aggressor country's forces.

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