Ukraine says that the Russians are more effective in hitting their small UAV operators behind the lines. Interesting.
Ukrainian military sources have reported on the increasing effectiveness of Russian glide bomb and artillery strikes against Ukrainian drone operators, as the Russian military command looks for ways to overcome Ukraine’s natural defensive advantage and its advantage in unmanned systems.
On the one hand, it has long made sense for combatants to use their persistent battlefield surveillance to find and strike the drone operators in their bunkers behind the lines. So this seems logical. Russia is going after Ukraine's drone operators and is having some success.
Yet it also makes sense for Ukraine to "admit" it is hurt if Russia's efforts aren't very successful. It makes sense for Ukraine to "publicize" Russia's so-called success to encourage Russia to keep doing what they are doing--which could be largely ineffective in reality.
From where I sit, the battlefield isn't transparent at all. And it isn't just from my perspective far from battlefields, eh?
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