There's A Reason Russia Is Attacking With Tanks Again. It Can Take 8 Drones To Knock Out 1 Tank.

Russian mechanized assaults near Pokrovsk are costly, but may slowly gain ground.

Russian mechanized forces are relentlessly attacking around the fortress city of Pokrovsk in eastern Ukraine. “There are too many mech assault videos from so many units,” open-source analyst Moklasen moaned on Tuesday.

Most of the attacks end the same way. A Russian commander “sends an entire battalion of armor captures lightly defended tree lines,” analyst Andrew Perpetua summarized.

The Russians “continue pushing, dump the infantry into some houses on the edge of town,” at which point the vehicles “turn around, pull out.” But “half the vehicles [are] on fire, a few more fell into a ditch.”

Still, the Russians’ shift back to tank-led assaults—after nearly a year of infantry-led assaults—could result in faster gains for Russia as its wider war on Ukraine grinds into the 44th month.

“They are definitely being faster in terms of advance and capturing the territory,” Ukrainian drone operator Kriegsforscher noted.