I am watching this video about Ukrainian use of drones to block roads from use by Russian armor.
I do smell a strongly pro-Ukrainian bias but there is one component that really does suggest Russian desperation: using civilian vehicles to avoid loss of tanks. Cars, vans, motorcycles, and golf carts.
The motorcycles are quick and might evade a drone. Golf carts and passenger vehicles are not so likely to evade a dropped grenade.
I have read that Russia is refurbished museum tanks for service and many mothballed in the 1950s. This change to unarmored vehicles makes loads of sense.
For all the pro-Russian propaganda I was seeing from libertarians and "paleoconservatives" a few months back you might have expected Putin leading a victory parade in Kyiv by now. I suspect by the time this war concludes, Russia will have so few operable tanks that repelling an invasion of NATO will be close to a field exercise.
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