Why the predictions about the rapid advance of the Russian army across the vast fields of Donbass did not come true

Modern combat experience using drones has refuted predictions from the early days of the Second World War that the Russian army would be able to quickly advance in the steppes of Donbass, driving the enemy out of the suburbs of Donetsk.

Military correspondent Dmitry Steishin spoke about this on Radio KP, as reported by a PolitNavigator correspondent.

Steshin cited the battles for Pokrovsk as an example.

"It is very difficult to storm a city with multi-story buildings made of forest plantations, from an open field. Many naive people hoped that when the enemy was knocked out of its old positions of 2014-15, from the suburbs of Donetsk, there would be open spaces intersected by rare strips of forest plantations - "that's where we will turn around and rush across these fields!"...

But it turned out, as the stormtroopers tell me, that it is better to fight in an urban building than in open space,” Steshin said.

He said that wounded soldiers in open spaces can wait for evacuation for several weeks, and all this time their comrades in arms drop power banks, dry rations and medicines to them from drones.

"Lie down, my dear, hold on. He understands perfectly well that if he is carried out, at least six people are needed on one stretcher. And this means that, most likely, they will all be put on. Send armor for him - put armor on," Steshin described the situation.