That’s what a Russian trench looks like after an attack by a Ukrainian drone. Russia is sending poorly equipped, barely trained recruits, who sign contracts hoping “to earn big money” (USD $2,000 per month) by safeguarding some warehouses in the rear — instead, the poverty-stricken Russians are thrown into the meat grinder of frontal assaults.
Putin’s generals wasted the best Russian troops within the first weeks of the invasion of Ukraine in 2022, when they hoped to take over the whole country within 4–6 weeks (Kyiv was supposed to fall in 3 days).
Now, 2.5 years into the full-scale war, the stockpiles of the Russian weapons and machinery are exhausted, and the military-industrial complex is working in full operational capacity, making bombs and tanks 24/7.
Yet, it’s not enough to replenish the massive daily losses due to Ukrainian attacks with the use of cheap drones and precise western missiles and guided bombs.
Russians are now sending to the front their ancient T-54 tanks, which are 70 years old.
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In modern warfare, drones destroy everything and everyone. Russia has already lost in Ukraine more than 100 of its newest T-90M tanks, and these ancient T-54s will become iron coffins for the crews.
Already in the 1st year of the war — after the first catastrophic losses of equipment — the Russian Ministry of Defense began sending T-62s from storages to the front, saying that these tanks “would be used as stationary firing points” (i.e. as artillery), but we all have seen these tanks sent into attacks on Ukrainian positions — and burning in the fields, destroyed by the Ukrainian defenders.
Now Russia is sending T-54s. At the front, technicians will put metal nets over them (trying to protect the tank from drones dropping explosives — works poorly), put kamikaze crews inside — and send them to take the next forest belt, after which there will be another forest belt, and another one — endlessly.
Not many survive the 1st attack, even fewer survive the second. Russia is trying to maintain pressure on the front, throwing more and more disposable soldiers and weaponry into the grinder.