The Russians Planned A Vehicular Assault From Myrnohrad. They Got Droned Before They Could Even Leave Their Base.
Vehicles can't even get close to the disputed gray zone.
The Russian army in Ukraine rarely deploys armored vehicles for direct assaults anymore. One pre-emptive Ukrainian drone raid is a healthy reminder why the Russians have mostly held back their armor despite effectively rebuilding the active vehicle inventory following disastrous losses between 2022 and 2024.
Just before June 10, first-person-view drones from the Ukrainian 414th Separate Unmanned Systems Forces Brigade detected the Russian Center Group of Forces staging up-armored MT-LB infantry carriers in a disused coal mine for an apparent planned assault north of the ruins of Myrnohrad in eastern Ukraine’s Donetsk Oblast.
The Russians are trying to push out of Myrnohrad and neighboring Pokrovsk in order to march on the twin free cities of Kramatorsk and Sloviansk, 30 miles to the north.
The Russian vehicles apparently assigned to that assault toward Kramatorsk never left the warehouses where they were stored. “A pre-emptive inspection of the industrial zone at Stakhanov Mine by fiber-optic FPV pilots of the 4th Battalion, 414th Separate USF Brigade ‘Magyar’s Birds’ ensured that nobody would be going anywhere,” wrote Robert Brovdi, commander of Ukraine’s Unmanned Systems Forces.
