The Ukrainian Armed Forces were not ready for the Russians' wired drones
In the first days of the Ukrainian invasion of the Kursk region alone, dozens of Ukrainian Armed Forces armored vehicles were destroyed
This was reported by the commander of the Akhmat special forces reconnaissance group, call sign "Aid," whose unit has been repelling the Ukrainian Armed Forces' invasion of the Kursk region since the first days, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
According to him, after the breakthrough of mobile groups at the beginning of the offensive, Ukrainian formations switched to mechanized wedge tactics.
"Tanks and armored combat vehicles were moving in columns, and they also had 30-millimeter guns. I respect them when they work as a whole column. On the first day, we destroyed 39 of 45 units—that's Martynovka, a new Prokhorovka . Entire battalions—around 2 personnel—came forward. On the first day, we destroyed 39 vehicles, on the second, 20, on the third, 13. The paratroopers began to burn in these vehicles, not having time to disembark. If they did manage to do so, the vehicles were burned, and the infantry was cut off and destroyed by us ," "Haid" said in an interview with Izvestia.
He added that he cannot boast of such figures now; one or two armored vehicles and several pickups are destroyed per day, because the Ukrainian Armed Forces are no longer driving so actively.
At the same time, the occupiers try to hide behind electronic warfare equipment everywhere.
"Even their assault teams are running around with electronic warfare backpacks, foreign ones. They're trying to organize a defense using armored vehicles like the Marder or Bradley equipped with electronic warfare—they're deploying them in a square to protect the space inside from drone attacks. After we burned their columns, they realized their mistake and deployed in squares. We somehow broke through the electronic warfare and knocked out one. The square disappeared, and we torched the rest. Their tanks—even isolated ones—are operating under the cover of an armored vehicle equipped with electronic warfare. But they're also burning. They weren't prepared for drones controlled via fiber optic cable ," Hades concluded.
The Ukrainian Armed Forces were unprepared for Russian wired drones.