{"id":665612,"date":"2025-12-31T22:59:22","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T22:59:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/665612\/"},"modified":"2025-12-31T22:59:22","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T22:59:22","slug":"russian-horseback-troops-face-drones-as-old-and-new-tactics-clash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/665612\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian horseback troops face drones as old and new tactics clash"},"content":{"rendered":"

A battlefield encounter between a Ukrainian drone and a Russian soldier on horseback ended in victory for modern weaponry over centuries-old tactics. <\/p>\n

Russia\u2019s invasion has seen technological advances that have changed the nature of warfare, from the ubiquitous use of drones to hypersonic missiles<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Yet Russia\u2019s shortage of military vehicles means that some of President Putin\u2019s troops<\/a> are trying to use horses to avoid getting stuck in the mud as they launch assaults on Ukrainian lines.<\/p>\n

\"Two<\/p>\n

Putin calls up mounted troops<\/p>\n

EAST2WEST<\/p>\n

\"Russian<\/p>\n

Ukraine<\/a>\u2019s 92nd Separate Assault Brigade said in a comment on social media: \u201cThe finale is quite predictable: the enemy\u2019s so-called cavalry is destroyed by the precise strikes of our drones.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u2022 Putin orders Russian army to advance into northern Ukraine<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n

It published a video on December 26 showing a remotely piloted Ukrainian first person view drone [FPV] swooping on a Russian soldier on horseback in an undisclosed area of the battlefield. The soldier fell off the horse, after which the explosives-packed drone crashed into him. Further FPV drone video showed the soldier\u2019s body lying in the snow. <\/p>\n

\u201cThanks to the professionalism of the 92nd Separate Assault Brigade\u2019s drone operator, not a single horse was injured,\u201d the brigade added. <\/p>\n

However, another video shared by the brigade seemed to show that a horse was injured or killed in an explosion alongside the Russian soldier it was carrying. The fate of a third mounted soldier was unclear. <\/p>\n

The prevalence of Russian and Ukrainian FPV drones has created a vast \u201ckill zone\u201d where nothing can move without being targeted.<\/p>\n

\"Russian<\/p>\n

Semyon Pegov, a pro-war Russian blogger<\/p>\n

GAVRIIL GRIGOROV\/SPUTNIK\/AFP\/GETTY IMAGES<\/p>\n

Russian soldiers were first reported to be training horseback troops in October. Semyon Pegov, a pro-war Russian blogger, said a commander identified only as \u201cKhan\u201d had begun using horses to carry out combat missions. <\/p>\n

\u201cHorses see well at night, don\u2019t need roads to accelerate on the final approach and their instincts can, reportedly, help them avoid mines,\u201d he wrote. He shared a video showing mounted troops galloping across countryside accompanied by Russian drones. <\/p>\n

\"Russian<\/p>\n

Besides horses, Russian soldiers have been using donkeys<\/a> to transport ammunition between their lines. <\/p>\n

Viktor Sobolev, a retired general who is now a member of the Russian parliament\u2019s defence committee, said in February: \u201cIt\u2019s better for a donkey to be killed than two people transporting supplies in a vehicle.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A battlefield encounter between a Ukrainian drone and a Russian soldier on horseback ended in victory for modern…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":665613,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[12,26],"class_list":{"0":"post-665612","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-news","9":"tag-world"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115816665408315661","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=665612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665612\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/665613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=665612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=665612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=665612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}