That was quite a mission for those guys, the article is worth reading.
This drone thing is just a whole new dimension in warfare. The three Ruskies that bailed out of the tank were whacked by drones. I’ve seen videos of individual soldiers being killed by drones.
The point being, just what defense the the common ground pounder have against these things? These drones in their various configurations can go after individual soldiers, tanks, vehicles, buildings, ships and anything they can get near.
I recall the day when I dodged bullets, rockets and mortars. Now today add drones. Don’t think I’d want to be a soldier in that Uke war on either side.
“Who dares wins”
Morale among troops is grim, ground down by relentless bombardment, a lack of advanced weapons, and losses on the battlefield. In cities hundreds of miles away from the front, the crowds of young men who lined up to join the army in the war’s early months have disappeared. Nowadays, eligible would-be recruits dodge the draft and spend their afternoons in nightclubs instead. Many have left the country altogether.
As I discovered while reporting from Ukraine over the past month, the picture that emerged from dozens of interviews with political leaders, military officers, and ordinary citizens was one of a country slipping towards disaster.
Even as President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says Ukraine is trying to find a way not to retreat, military officers privately accept that more losses are inevitable this summer. The only question is how bad they will be. Vladimir Putin has arguably never been closer to his goal.
“We know people are flagging and we hear it from regional governors and from the people themselves,” Andriy Yermak, Zelenskyy’s powerful chief of staff, told POLITICO. Yermak and his boss travel together to “some of the most dangerous places” to rally citizens and soldiers for the fight, he said. “We tell people: ‘Your name will be in the history books.’”