The army of the Russian Federation is massively switching to close combat tactics.
Moreover, the invaders are forced to resort to hand-to-hand combat, because they are experiencing an acute shortage of artillery and other remote weapons. So, to one of the recent video messages of Russian mobilized people, in which they complained that they had sent to storm the Ukrainian concrete pillbox, armed only with “machine guns and shovels”. This is stated in the new set of British intelligence for March 5.
The blades are likely trench tools used for hand-to-hand combat, the report says.
The British note that the combat effectiveness of the regular MPL-50 infantry shovel is “particularly mythologized in Russia”, and this tool itself has changed little since its creation in 1869. It is noted that the constant use of these blades as weapons underscores the brutal and low-tech combat that has come to characterize much of the war.
In London, they believe that the transition to predominantly close combat in Ukraine is caused by the desire of the Russian command to continue a high-intensity war, despite the depletion of military resources.
As a result, the aggressor country switched to the tactics of foot infantry attacks with minimal support from artillery, which was short of shells.
Recall that earlier the mercenaries of the private military company “Wagner” complained about the colossal shortage of ammunition. The lack of shells and ammunition leads to huge losses of the enemy on the battlefield.
Source: Racurs
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