Ukraine leverages limited resources for incursion into Russia’s Kursk
Al Jazeera
As Ukraine gains a rare upper hand, the world awaits Russian talk of red lines and its promised response.
Ukraine’s continuing incursion has played to its strengths: Movement, tactical innovation and the ability to exploit small successes to bigger achievements.
Ukraine has also managed to leverage the limited resources it has and a picture is now emerging of new arms used in novel ways that have caught Russian forces off-guard and kept them off balance.
Both Russia and Ukraine extensively use drones of all types for reconnaissance and attack. But Ukraine’s innovation is to combine attack drones with electronic warfare units that jam the signals of Russian drones, blinding them.
This allowed Ukrainian drones to attack targets and move ground units forward.
Once there, the jammers were moved up, and the process repeated in a leapfrog manner allowing Ukrainian forces to advance relatively intact and leaving Russian military planners with very little in the way of information about Ukrainian movements.
