What we will see next is remote mining of anti personnel mines by the Russians. It’s already happened given that awful minefield video of the 47th Brigade.
NATO needs to learn from this, because they are going to be in exactly the same situation.
Their breach and assault strategy is destined to fail. And it doesn’t matter if they have “air cover” or not.
If you watch this video of US Army training, (including a cameo by Wesley Clark himself), they are using the same engineering vehicles as the Ukrainians, air cover is not a major factor, and if their engineering vehicles get hit, they are “fixed” in that minefield, and can’t even move.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oI0Vprf7FBo
Lancet drones and copters are taking out the Lepoards