In the area under the responsibility of the 59th Separate Assault Brigade for Defense and Sustainment on the Pokrovsk direction, they are observing changes in the tactics of Russian forces: the number of direct assaults has decreased, but FPV drone strikes, artillery, and drone drops have intensified. The enemy’s main goal is to destabilize logistics, complicate the delivery of ammunition, food, and rotation of personnel.
This was stated by Taras Myshak, senior officer of the communications department of the 59th Separate Assault Brigade of unmanned systems named after Yakov Ganzhuk, during a broadcast on September 6, where changes in the enemy’s tactics and risks for Ukrainian units were discussed.
New aim of drone strikes: what the enemy is changing
«Currently in the zone of our responsibility we are recording the work of a Russian unit named ‘Rubicon’. They are well-trained and dangerous pilots. They operate on different types of drones, but probably the most sophisticated are fiber-optic drones, because these are drones that cannot be suppressed by EW means, i.e., they are resistant to this. Therefore they are very difficult to detect and, of course, they pose a great danger»
– Taras Myshak
According to the officer, Russian units continue to operate in small infantry groups, seeping through forest belts and plantations, attempting to penetrate the rear of Ukrainian units.
«And now they are operating under a different tactic, they try to disrupt logistics, cut off some of our logistic routes, because without logistics it is impossible to wage war, impossible to hold the defense. And they try after that to infiltrate with such small infantry groups. They probe the defense line, i.e., they look for gaps in the defense line where we might not notice them, where they could pass through from a landing, or stealthily, under anti-drone cloaks, slip into our rear. And along the same route to send several more such groups, accumulate, and then from there to storm, to enter, for example, the positions of our pilots, or mortar teams, or artillery in the rear»
– Taras Myshak
According to Myshak, in the south of the Pokrovsk direction the enemy has amassed significant forces – approximately up to 100,000 troops. Their goal is to break through to the Dnipropetrovsk region. At the same time they report rear strikes and the strengthening of logistic routes by Ukrainian units to reduce the impact of strikes.
In the overall context, the changes in the enemy’s tactics push Ukrainian defenders to intensify monitoring of logistics chains, critical supply routes, and counter-drone threats to preserve the defense and stabilize the front on the Pokrovsk direction.