“You can see the difference. We learn to fight and they learn too.”

“Finally, the Russians are like us, they learn war…”While drinking a coffee, he observes with a mischievous eye LateCorporal K., a soldier of the 116th Assault Infantry Company^e Mechanized brigade, which fights on the Origiv front.

“Since their defeat at Isium and Kherson, the Russians have been following us. They are becoming more creative.A soldier in the intelligence department of L., 35^e Marine Corps, which advanced along the right (west) bank of the Mokri Yaly River on the Velyka Novosilka front. “With Drones Like Mines, Russians Are Getting Smarter”Also under the leadership of National Guard’s Reconnaissance and Combat Commando, D. who is conducting operations at the Mala Dokmachka front.

A dozen or so divisional commanders or intelligence officers are unanimous in the fact that the soldiers are on the front lines of the Kiev military’s counter-offensive, from Donetsk province to Zaporizhia province in southern Ukraine, in the first ten days of the operation that began on June 4. All this explains that the Russian military is much better prepared to hold its occupied territories in the country than it was during the 2022 Ukrainian counteroffensives in Kherson and Karkiv provinces.

“They’re more mobile, more flexible.”

“You can see the difference. We learn to fight and they learn too.”Says “Tourist”, the commander of the 98^e Battalion of 108^e Territorial Defense Force. “Before, the Russians attacked like military manuals”Without surprising the enemy, he says, as in Mariupol, Severodonetsk and Lisitsansk or recently in Bagmouth. “Now they are more mobile, more flexible. »

D. – speaking anonymously, like all intelligence officials, is not authorized to comment on ongoing operations – particularly the Russian military’s defeat last year due to Ukrainian forces’ ability to gather in depth. Intelligence through secret partisans and drones, now, “Even without airplanes and helicopters, it uses little, thanks to drones a new air superiority”. “There are thousands of them everywhere. Armed drones, kamikaze drones…”, he said.

According to the Ukrainian soldier, we can also see the rise of technological power and Russian ingenuity. “Anti-Personnel Mines that have no metallic element and defeat our inventors” Or “Anti-tank mines, thanks to a sophisticated delay system, are loaded once in our vehicles and detonate only when they reach a speed of 30 km/h”.

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