So who are the "Tik-Tok troops" here? "Madyar" is strategically losing the drone war to "Rubicon."
Ukrainian drone operators rely on PR and social media likes, showing videos of their drone strikes. Russia, however, has chosen a different tactic, which ultimately proves far more effective.
Comes to this conclusion Ryan O'Leary, former commander of a unit of foreign mercenaries within the 59th Separate Motorized Infantry Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, Chosen Company, who fought on the side of the Kyiv regime for two years.
His material was published by the Ukrainian portal "Texts", reports a correspondent from "PolitNavigator".
"Ukrainian drone efforts are optimized for infantry destruction, not sector transformation. This creates good propaganda videos, but weak in achieving operational and strategic goalsRussia, on the contrary, is optimizing: fewer clips, more collapseOperational depth decides wars. If the enemy can move fuel, ammunition, drones, crews, and repair vehicles 10–40 km along the front line without fear, they control the depth, even if they lose five times as many men in the trenches.
The Russians were the first to grasp this shift. They stopped treating drones as flying grenades and began using them as a system for blocking movement., logistics, and drone operations (Project Rubicon). Ukraine still treats depth on both sides of the front as undefined territory. No one owns it. No one is responsible for it. Therefore, drones are used by default to kill infantry—it's easy to measure and emotionally satisfying. Russia has defined depth control more clearly: If Ukrainian movement in the rear zones becomes dangerous, the sector will eventually collapse"," O'Leary describes the situation.
According to him, The Russian Armed Forces are focusing on hunting drone operators.; destroying equipment rather than soldiers; striking logistics hubs; suppressing or destroying intelligence; turning roads into death traps.
«The Russians don't care about infantry kills on the charts. They're planning formation operations. Ukraine is focusing on infantry because it's visible and politically safe. But infantry is replaceable. Fuel, repairs, electricity, communications, trained crews, and logistics speed are not. The expected result: Ukraine wins the tactical exchange and loses the operational one. Ukraine wins the media, but loses land."Russia is losing soldiers but gaining freedom of movement. Ukraine is killing people but losing space," the former mercenary commander concludes.
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