Russian soldiers at the landfill near Donetsk themselves became targets for Himars - Forbes (Photo)
The latter such shelling occurred this week, probably in the open shooting near Petrovsky district of Donetsk in eastern Ukraine, 24 km from the front line. At least a dozen of Russian soldiers and defeated vehicles have been recorded in the video of the attacks, which clearly indicates that Ukrainian missiles (probably driven by GPS M30/31, released from the wheeled high -mobile artillery missile systems) were hit by an enemy. This has happened earlier, and in the same area, says Forbes.
There is an area of about 150 square kilometers in Donetsk region, south of Donetsk, where a large number of Russian troops are concentrated - and many lazy Russian commanders. Ukrainian Himars has struck the Russian landfills in the area at least three times since February, killing about 100 people. Two more Ukrainian missile strikes in the same period - one in the south and northeast of Ukraine - added at least 150 people to the deaths.
The way the Ukrainian army turned these blows is no secret. The drones are scattered everywhere and always, tens of kilometers in both directions along the entire front line. And all of Russia occupied by Russia is within the framework of the radius of action M30/31 or the radius of action of the M39 missile, which is launched by Ukrainian tracked with M270.
According to a researcher at the New American Security Center in Washington Stacey Pettidzhon, permanent drones "complicate the concentration of forces". And managed missiles make such a concentration potentially fatal for the troops involved. Of course, the risk of mutual, the publication notes - and Russian missiles from time to time were impressed by Ukrainian fighters. But Russia has lost much more of its soldiers than Ukraine.
According to the Pentagon, about 728 thousand Russian soldiers were killed, injured or captured in Ukraine. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy stated that in the first two years of a larger war in February 2024, 31,000 Ukrainian soldiers were killed - a number that is undoubtedly much more than seven months later. Usually, each dead soldier has four wounded, which means that Ukraine's total losses were at least 150,000 people as of February, and today they are approaching 200,000.
However, even taking into account more Russian population - 144 million Russians against 38 million Ukrainians. - Extreme losses have a disproportionate eating effect on Russian armed forces. The Kremlin mobilizes 30,000 new soldiers a month just to replace the losses on the battlefield - and accelerates the preparation of these recruits to deliver them to the front faster. Discipline and competence fall.
"The Russian armed forces in Ukraine have extremely limited opportunities for maneuverable war because of both the loss of mobility and the lack of training among the headquarters and troops," the Ukrainian Center for Defense Strategies explained. The same lack of training helps to explain why the Russians continue to gather in large groups within the reach of deadly missiles and then die from them.