The year that changed the war: what was on the front last spring - and what was now
Even then, the drones were circling quite actively, and I did not want to do extra twice at our positions. Then I drove to this height, took a photo and even stood there half an hour - recorded a video of sunrise. The problem is that today it is so easy to hang, even in 10 kilometer zone - it is no longer possible. The saturation of the sky with drones is ten times larger. The flight range has also increased as comparable to last year.
This creates the main problem - logistics and everything that is related to it. And the maintenance of the front, the supply of the necessary soldiers to the front - it is the "blood" that feeds their ability to fight. This is a radical difference between the front, how to compare with last winter - ensuring the functioning of logistics "arteries" is even more dangerous today than being in positions. Sometimes infantry prefers to spend more time in armor than to bear the danger of moving.
Now every car that moves near the front must have a high -quality RB. It is necessary to have the spectrum of the analyzer that monitors the sky. And even this will not be a safety guarantee. Because the enemy is increasingly using drones on fiber with a range of flight already 15 kilometers. Since drones in the sky becomes more on all sides, the main challenge is their ordering, coordination and organization of work, both drones and Rebo - two antipodes.
The one who is the first to organize this process qualitatively will have a significant advantage and a chance to survive. From good news - to constantly hear our planes in the sky, which was not at all. Due to the presence of aircraft and new electronic warfare technologies, hostile booths became less, at least not comparable to what was with Avdiivka a year ago. More than a hundred aviation bombs per day were sometimes used there. As you can see, the front line stabilized a little.
A few months ago, almost everyone did not see the chance of standing Pokrovsk. But he is still standing. And the front of the front has not been two months. In the Pokrovsky direction, several settlements were even released during this time. For the most part, this happened because of the arrival of the Drapyaty commander, who headed Khortytsia.
But! There are fears and feelings (I say immediately - supported exclusively by his own intuition) that the enemy accumulates strength and in the near future again throws a wave into the battle to capture more Donetsk region and enter Dnepropetrovsk. The geopolitical task is to knock out the best positions in negotiations. And provide a stable strategic initiative. Therefore, for us, events at the front should be central, without distractions for different, actually secondary.