Putin’s Soldiers Are Walking To War On Foot …...

Putin’s Soldiers Are Walking To War On Foot …

Putin’s Soldiers Are Walking To War On Foot …
DONETSK OBLAST, Ukraine — For months, the Kremlin has projected an image of unstoppable momentum in eastern Ukraine, pointing to grueling, incremental advances bought with overwhelming artillery fire and waves of manpower. But beneath the triumphalist rhetoric from Moscow, a far more desperate reality is unfolding on the ground. Across the critical Donetsk front, Russian soldiers are increasingly being forced to advance toward the front lines on foot, marching kilometers through open territory where they are easily spotted and picked off by Ukrainian reconnaissance teams.
The reason for this sudden regression to nineteenth-century infantry warfare is a devastatingly effective, highly synchronized Ukrainian interdiction campaign targeting the “blood of war”: petroleum. By marrying sophisticated artificial intelligence with relentless sabotage operations, Ukraine has systematically choked off the flow of fuel to front-line units. The strategy has degraded Russia’s mechanized capabilities to such a degree that the Kremlin’s broader offensive in the Donbas is beginning to fracture under the weight of its own logistical paralysis.
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