The Russian army actually used 3 armored personnel carriers on the edge of Krasnogovka, a fortress city held by the Ukrainian army, to continuously transport combat troops to the front line.
Russian army convoy
This is a scene that has just happened on the Russian-Ukrainian battlefield, in Krasnogivka, the Donbas battlefield in eastern Ukraine, the Russian army dared to risk the threat of anti-tank missiles, drones, etc., and once again launched a large-scale armored assault operation that had not been seen for a long time, concentrating a large number of armored combat vehicles and launching a 3-way armored assault to the south of Krasnogivka. According to the video released by the Ukrainian army, after the Russian armored vehicles arrived at the buildings on the edge of the city and unloaded the vehicle-mounted infantry, they actually returned to the starting position again, and pulled another wave of Russian troops to other battlefields in the city. The Russian army shuttles back and forth, as if entering a no-man's land, but the Ukrainian army is helpless and can only look at the defense!
Russian army convoy
You must know that in the first stage of the Russian-Ukrainian war, the Russian army used to generally use the tactics of large-scale armored forces interspersed in depth, but in the face of the massive anti-tank missile and drone attacks of the Ukrainian army, the Russian army gradually withdrew and changed the breakthrough of large-depth armored troops into a front-line horizontal push operation. After all, according to the data released by the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, the United States and Western countries have provided Ukraine with a total of more than 60,000 anti-tank missiles, including more advanced models such as "Javelin" and NLAW. According to the statistics of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the ratio of Ukrainian anti-tank missiles to Russian tanks on the front line of the Russian-Ukrainian war is 90:1, that is, each Russian tank may face the threat of 90 anti-tank missiles.
Armored vehicles in a convoy of the Russian army
The Russian convoy assaulted at high speed
At that time, the Ukrainian army used a large number of anti-tank missiles, FPV drones, etc., to carry out attrition operations against the armored forces of the Russian army, causing heavy losses to the Russian armored fighting vehicles. However, today in 2024, the Russian army has restarted armored assault operations, and the Ukrainian army has no reaction and helplessness to the attack of the Russian army. This may mean that the Ukrainian army is already sitting on a mountain and is about to run out of weapons such as anti-tank missiles, large-caliber artillery, etc., which are aided by the West, and even cheap FPV drones have to be saved.
Individual anti-tank weapons of Western aid to Ukraine
The Russian army used dozens of armored combat vehicles to attack Krasnogivka in multiple ways, perhaps it was just an offensive test to see if the Ukrainian army can resist in the face of the Russian army's armored assault now; if the Ukrainian army can withstand the mechanized attack of the Russian army, then the Russian army will continue to choose a front-line horizontal push; and if the Ukrainian army cannot withstand this wave of attacks, then the Russian army may copy the tactics of armored cluster assault in other directions of the Russian-Ukrainian battlefield and resume large-depth operations. This is obviously not good news for the Ukrainian army, which means that the front line of the Ukrainian army may collapse under continuous armored attacks.
Individual anti-tank weapons of Western aid to Ukraine
Interestingly, the Russian T-72 main battle tank involved in the offensive also completely surrounded the tank hull with a thick "shell" to prevent attacks by anti-tank missiles and drones. Although such a "simple shell" looks "very copycat", it can save a life under the blow of a drone, after all, the drone needs to penetrate the improvised tank shell before it can damage the tank itself in the second or even third attack. It can be seen that although the Russian army has restarted the armored assault, it has not been careless and taken lightly, and has still made targeted protective preparations, and the Russian army has become cautious.
Heavily protected Russian tanks
After this battle, Ukraine's desire for Western arms assistance will escalate again, and the soldiers on the whole line no longer even have anti-tank missiles, and large-caliber artillery shells are fighting fewer and less, and in the face of the Russian army's offensive, they can only rely more on building complexes to fight street battles to resist. The Russian Ministry of Defense even said that Russia has been able to produce 250,000 rounds of large-caliber ammunition per month, with an annual output of about 3 million rounds, which is enough to open up the Russian army on the front line.
Russian armored forces launched a surprise attack
It can be seen from this that if the $60 billion military aid from the United States and the weapons support from European countries are not in place, the Ukrainian army will collapse. According to Western intelligence, the Russian army is likely to start operations in the Kharkiv direction in 2024, and Ukraine has also evacuated civilians in northern Kharkiv and began digging trenches and building fortifications. But if the Ukrainian army does not even have sufficient anti-armor means, then a new round of all-out offensive by the Russian army may really be overwhelming.