The head of the Come Back Alive organisation explains the tactics used by the Ukrainian Armed Forces against Russia

Denys Karlovskyy – Saturday, 5 March 2022, 22:24

The head of the Come Back Alive foundation, Taras Chmut, said that the Ukrainian Armed Forces have engaged in manoeuvre-based defence instead of holding the front line.

Source: Chmut in comments to Radio NV.

Quote from Chmut: "The Ukrainian Armed Forces have the potential to be the second or third [largest] in the world, with a large amount of equipment, weapons and people. If the Ukrainian Armed Forces (UAF) had tried to keep the lines of defence along the border, they would have been defeated, surrounded and destroyed. The UAF used a different approach: manoeuvre-based defence. They enter the battle, retreat and drag the enemy further in. The enemy stops due to the lack of logistics and ammunition. We engage in a counterattack, breaking the enemy columns, firing from artillery, aircraft and Bayraktars [Unmanned Aerial Vehicles] where the enemy doesn't expect it and where he cannot effectively cover himself with air defence. I think everyone saw the columns of abandoned Russian equipment. This is the result of such tactics by the UAF".

Details: Chmut said that UAF units demonstrated these tactics in the Sumy region, where a battalion of the Ukrainian 93rd brigade came to Ukraine's border with the Russian Federation. First, the battalion retreated and then counterattacked and used quick raids to knock out the enemy.

Such tactics are not aimed at holding positions but at applying precision attacks to deplete and demoralise the enemy and to capture its equipment for an effective counterattack afterwards.