Comments by "Harry Mills" (@harrymills2770) on "Ukraine RETREATS in Toretsk Smashed by Superior Russian Tactics" video.

  1. "Meat wave attacks" are pretty much Ukraine's stock in trade, which is why the pundits are projecting this onto the Russians. The Russian "Fire Wall" or "Wall of Fire" method is very expensive in ammunition, but sparing of men, and is nothing new. This was how they marched into Berlin, in 1945: behind a wall of fire. It's not even uniquely Russian tactic, as this was how Field Marshal Montgomery liked to fight: Overwhelming firepower. Just carpet bomb the area immediately in front of you. Montgomery lost more men to asphyxiation from the "Wall of Fire" than he lost to the Germans in the 2nd Battle of El Alamein. But yes. From my easy chair, the Russians do appear to be fighting "smarter." They were maintaining pretty straight front lines, for the first year or year-and-a-half. But since Ukrainian air defenses in the south have been depleted or destroyed, we're seeing more classic "maneuver warfare," where the Russians (sometimes) bypass fortifications, threaten encirclement, and attack from 3 sides, in a more classic combined-arms attack with infantry, armor and air support. Sheer speculation on my part, but I think that when Ukraine still had plenty of equipment and ammo, the classic pincer maneuvers just got the two pincers mangled, due to FPV drones and a then-abundant reservoir of precision artillery on the Ukrainian side. We saw a resurgence of this in the Kursk campaign, where Ukraine mustered the best of what it had left, and decimated more than one Russian convoy of reinforcements. But in the south? I think they're maneuvering much more aggressively with their armor.
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  2. The best reports from the front. You provide the bigger picture.
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