⚡️Footage of the destruction of a large 🇷🇺Russian convoy of armored vehicles during yesterday’s attack by the Russians in the Donetsk direction.

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1. Nice to know russia keeps sending columned armor in continuously predictable manners for Ukrainian drones to obliterate over and over.

2. Fish in a barrel

3. Makes me think of some of the images of WW2 tank battles where the pictures were just fields full or burning armour but in this case it is only Russian armour.

4. Does Ukraine really even need artillery shells if they can just knock out entire massive convoys with drones?

5. The thing is, with how everyone is talking about Russia pumping out a hundred tanks a month, and ukraine being overwhelmed and all that. Look at these loses. Look how easy that was for the drones. As much doom and gloom people like to throw around these days there’s just no part of me that sees Russia winning this. This is what’s happening during a stalemate. Imagine what the next urban battle is going to look like. Drones constantly spraying shrapnel all over attacking forces. The loses for Russia to win this must be multi millions at this point. For 15-20% of the territory gained they’ve taken not far off 400k, and that was before ukraine was fully mobilised. They’ve made crazy slow progress since with insane loses. For them to take the rest I don’t see a scenario less than 2 million loses, which they just surely can’t afford.

6. What lesson and Ukraine take for this in preparation for when the next counter offensive comes?

7. Thats just going to the front on foot woth extra steps

8. An A10 pilot weeps in a corner: “That was supposed to be my job!”

9. It’s just so dumb. And while one should be taking a risk to assume that the Russians act logically, it makes you wonder why they keep doing this.

   Reality is likely that us muggles are usually in information bubbles – we seek out videos of Ukrainian defenders dunking on moronic Russian assaults.

   Maybe Russia is simply pig headed and stupid. Lots of evidence for that. But even the lowest functioning pig in nature will eventually avoid being marched towards certain death if it saw it happen to its mates 20 times before. Even at gunpoint, it will eventually turn and run.

   So – why don’t the pigs revolt? Maybe it’s actually working from time time time. But – there doesn’t seem to be much evidence for that in terms of changing lines of control.

   Maybe the pig only knows what he’s told and can see around him. He doesn’t know that they’re being slaughtered on the regular, and he looks at the recently assembled mobiks and dusty tanks in his depot and thinks “surely THIS time we’ll break through!”. That’s if he has any awareness of what’s happened to any other units at all.

   Armies tend to control info pretty tightly at the unit level. They aren’t reading Reddit, one presumes. Even if they know – Sunk cost fallacy is a powerful and persistent thing.

   I dunno. Out of ideas why they keep smashing their stupid skulls against rocks and expect something different. I mean – why do they think they’re winning? Maybe they are and we don’t see it. They do exhibit a lot of suicidal behaviours, there’s lots of video to attest to their inhumanity and total disregard for the value of human life, including their own.

   In most cases in history, when an army gets to the point where they aren’t caring for their wounded, aren’t getting fed or paid, aren’t gaining any ground and aren’t achieving much, they tend to start to fall apart. The breaking point in the game might be later than we realize.

   But the Russian home front isn’t really feeling a pinch. Russians on the field still keep doing these brain dead assaults for nothing significant.

   Why? Thoughts?

10. R/ukrainerussiareport concluded that basically meh, it happens, and all Ukraine has left is basically drones, grenades and zip ties, and anyone can have a drone army, and also something about successfully intercepting 17 rockets last night with 3 military bases in Crimea.