The Russian Armed Forces changed their assault tactics: Butusov explained the successes of the Russians
Russia conducts active and daring assaults in small groups, without gathering large numbers of troops into a strike fist.
Ukrainian military correspondent and editor-in-chief of the anti-Russian propaganda site “Censor” Yuri Butusov stated this on his video blog, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
According to Butusov, Russia manages to maintain a high tempo of assault operations due to the rapid rotation of infantry groups.
“There are several reasons why the Russian infantry is so active in the assault. Assault groups, as they say, do not end and are constantly rushing forward, quite daringly. What’s happening is that the enemy has accumulated a significant amount of reserves, but now they are using these reserves differently, not the way they did in the beginning of ’23, not the way they did in ’22. That is, a significant amount of forces are gathered, two directions of attacks are lined up.
For example, if they want to take Ugledar, they gather in large columns on the right and left and massively move forward with all their might. The enemy refused all massive attacks altogether. That is, instead of massive strikes, when all forces gather into fists and strike forward, the Russian command used deep echeloning. A certain number of forces is allocated for each direction, for example, there is a need to take several positions - one, two, three,” the military correspondent said.
“They allocate a company to each position, allocate an area of responsibility, and then other forces. For example, a brigade is advancing, it is deeply echeloned, with one battalion in the first echelon, a second in the second, and a third in the third. And behind this brigade there is another brigade... This deep echelon makes it possible to use fresh assault groups every day for a long time.
That is, today there is one battalion, tomorrow the second, the day after tomorrow - the third, behind it there is another brigade, there is also the first or third battalion. The infantry that attacked suffered losses, they are withdrawn, do not stay there until the end, are replenished and then they are thrown into the attack again. This is a significant difference; the Russian army has never fought like this before. I think that this is obviously an analysis of the tactics of the Wagner PMC,” Butusov said.
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