The Ukrainian war has been breaking out for more than a month, and the heroism of the Ukrainian army in the battle has touched the entire Western world, not only resisting the powerful offensive in the battle against the strong enemy Russia, but also creating some wonderful achievements. Although it is far from the era of the 19th century when the great powers competed for supremacy over the jungle law, it still tells the world that the spirit of defending the country is so combative.
The most important factors in the war are mainly two aspects, the first is the degree of advanced weapons and equipment, which Ukraine does not have now, in the head-on confrontation with the Russian army, whether missiles, aircraft or tanks and artillery are in a weak position, most of the weapons and equipment still belong to the heritage of the former Soviet Union. The second aspect is the people, the Ukrainian army has a strong spirit of defending the country, this spirit supports the fighters involved in the battle, gives full play to their inner potential, and shows a strong fighting force.
The victory of a war, especially a large-scale war, requires favorable time, place, and conditions. The natural climatic conditions, the geographical environment and the back of people's hearts in battle all come from the spirit of defending the country within the person, which is the basis for the benefit of the people at all times and places, and if there is no spirit of defending the family and defending the country as the foundation, it is impossible to give play to the advantages of the heavens, the place, and the people.
Familiarize yourself with the terrain and flexibly use a variety of combat styles
For example, in the battle in western Kiev, the Ukrainian army dug a river embankment in the west in order to limit the mobility of the Russian mechanized troops, turning the road into a muddy swamp, and finally formed a siege of some Russian troops in the west of Kiev, and the Russian army had to retreat to Belarus through the only pontoon bridge in the process of withdrawing from Kiev, discarding and destroying a large number of weapons and equipment, and some soldiers also threw away their guns and uniforms and waded away.
In the Battle of Donbass Iyyum, the Ukrainian army once again used the method of breaking the dike to release water to limit the mobility of the Russian army.
The Ukrainian army flexibly uses various means of warfare to fight against the Russian army. In particular, on the basis of a large number of european and American countries supporting anti-tank equipment, special detachments are used to fight.
Fight according to your own strengths and weaknesses
Under the disadvantage of not occupying air superiority and medium- and long-distance mobility, the special operations squad is flexibly used, and three or four special forces with 20-30 Homeland Defense Corps fighters conduct close combat and infantry operations with the Russian army.
They were not at all intimidated by the Russian infantry. Without Russian Air Force fighters, they would have been able to cross the border with Russian infantry long ago. Because, the Russian infantry is the same as the old three, frontal containment, two sides roundabout.
This set of Ukrainians is also very familiar, after all, during World War II, the Soviet Ukrainian Front was the best tactically capable student in the Soviet Army. The Ukrainian army first deployed anti-armored infantry in the front, and then gathered tanks in the back to counterattack at any time, which could crack the offensive tactics of the Russian infantry, and repeatedly won victories in the battle and even defeated the well-equipped ace troops of the Russian army.
Use the city to defuse the firepower superiority of the Russian mechanized troops, and adopt hedgehog tactics
At that time, the main composition of the Soviet army was Russians and Ukrainians. As a result, Ukrainians are very familiar with the essence of Soviet-style large-depth movement warfare. This time, the strategy of the Ukrainian army is to completely restrain the Russian army's large-depth movement war. The Wu army all shrunk in the city fortress to act as hedgehogs. The Russian army wants to intersperse it, and it wants to encircle it, and the Ukrainian army does not care at all.
The more hedgehogs the Russians surrounded, the more passive the situation became. Therefore, the more difficult the logistical support, the longer the supply line, giving the Ukrainian special detachment a lot of opportunities to attack and gradually eat away at the Russian army. In the end, it is impossible to fight and can only withdraw from the battlefield.
Use network superiority to wage people's war
Although the Ukrainian army does not have the mobility of the russian mechanized troops, but a large number of special squads are distributed in various positions in the theater, with the help of Western satellites and reconnaissance aircraft, combined with the mobile phones distributed throughout the country to obtain the position information of the Russian army, special detachments in various places can attack the weak links of the Russian army at any position, in fact, it also improves the mobility of the Ukrainian army.
Take advantage of the night to attack
Ukrainian troops are quite familiar with the terrain in their local operations, and have obtained a large number of night vision equipment with the support of the West, and the United States and other Western countries have assisted Ukraine with tens of thousands of sets of advanced individual night vision systems. This led to the Russian tanks raiding along the road during the day, and at night, the Ukrainian special forces took advantage of the night battle to continuously launch attacks, and the Russian army could only be passively beaten. Under low-light conditions, the third generation of night vision goggles in the United States has a detection distance of more than 300 meters for people, and at more than 200 meters, it can distinguish people's appearance, which is commonly known as the human face. In the melee between Iraq and Afghanistan, the U.S. military used a more advanced three-generation midnight vision camera that could spot the enemy more than 700 meters away in the shimmering light. Therefore, the Ukrainian army equipped with tens of thousands of sets of advanced Western night vision systems, coupled with javelins and iron fist anti-armor weapons, has a great advantage over the Russian army in the night battle.
Logistical replenishment advantages are significant
The Ukrainian army is mainly mechanized infantry, and the so-called motorized infantry brigade is a soldier who fights in a car. Because of the local operation, it is relatively easy to supply, while the Russian army has a high degree of heavy firepower and mechanization, and the difficulty of refueling, ammunition and food supply is very large, and it is completely necessary to send long distances from Russia through layers of links to the front line positions. The supply difficulty of the Russian army in both distance and quantity is far greater than that of the Ukrainian army. This has resulted in frequent attacks and serious shortages of Russian supplies.
Therefore, in local operations, if we have a strong spirit of defending the family and defending the country, as long as the gap in weapons and equipment is not too large, we still have a very huge advantage. The Ukrainian army basically gave full play to these advantages.
As an aggressor, it is true that there are many difficulties in fighting abroad, and judging from the history of World War II, most of the troops defending their homes and defending the country who fought on their own soil have achieved final victories. For example, Iraq, Afghanistan, Vietnam, etc. It was still very difficult for the Russians to win the war.