Kiev, Ukraine (AP) – The frontline of the Ukrainian battlefield has grown to nearly 1,250 kilometers (800 miles) with Kiev’s defenses extended, but Russian forces are adopting a new tactic of sending a flock of small attack groups to infiltrate the Ukrainian line.
Contact information has increased by around 200 kilometers (120 miles) over the past year, with Ukrainian forces having averaged 160-190 combat engagements with larger Russian troops, General Oleksandr Silsky said in a review of the battlefield situation.
At the same time, Russian tactics switched from the costly, large-scale attacks from the beginning of the summer to deploying small offensive groups to a new approach that Silsky called the “thousand cut” tactics.
His version of the event could not be independently verified, and Russian officials did not immediately comment.
The Russian army is I’m trying to get Ukraine involved Number weight and drones, missiles, artillery, and A devastating glide bomb. They slowly pushed the Ukrainian defenders back into the rural areas, but the Russian army I couldn’t conquer the city It constitutes a defensive base.
President Donald Trump is striving to end the war There was no progresson Tuesday he said he believes Ukraine can change the tide. Reclaim all territory It’s lost to Russia, and it amounts to about 20% of the land.
Silsky said Russia is using terrain coverings to penetrate the frontlines, attacking the rear areas of Ukraine and setting up a small attack group of around four to six soldiers that will destroy supply lines and rotations of the army. However, these small groups have been cut off and trapped by surrounding Ukrainian troops, he said in the Ukrainian capital Kiev.
Silsky told reporters that the Russian troops were firing about twice as many artillery as Ukrainian units.
However, he argued that the recent Ukrainian push on Russian status has regained control of 168 square kilometers (65 square miles) of land.
Meanwhile, Ukraine’s long-range strike programme has caused significant damage to Russia’s military and industrial assets in recent weeks, he said.
According to Silsky, Ukraine’s newly created unmanned systems forces using increasingly sophisticated drones attacked 85 targets within two months.
He believed in a strike It causes fuel shortages Within Russia it is hindering logistics and the supply of the Army.
With winter approaching and Russia expecting to escalate its attack on Ukraine’s power grid, Kyiv is strengthening its air defense system, combining interceptor drones, helicopters, optical aircraft and electronic watering systems, Silsky said.
The improved interceptor cuts Russian attack drones by at least 70% time, adding that Ukraine is currently testing lightweight fixed-wing aircraft armed with machine guns as an additional counter-drone measure.
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Hutton was reported from Lisbon, Portugal.
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