Due to a lack of trained personnel and significant losses of equipment, the Russian Federation is increasingly relying on frontal infantry attacks.
This was reported by the Institute for the Study of War (ISW).
Continued discussion on Russian blogs about large-scale frontal attacks by Russian infantry highlights the problems Russia will face using massed infantry attacks to offset the problems contributing to current trench warfare.
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One of the military commanders emphasized that the Russian practice of conducting tactical assaults with the aim of storming Ukrainian fortified positions in the forested areas of Donbass will not lead to a wider operational breakthrough on any sector of the front.
There is no way to train enough Russian troops for the intense frontal attacks needed to make a significant advance in Ukraine, he said.
Another blogger argued that the Russian military was about to experience a “true renaissance in infantry combat” because it had fewer tanks, infantry fighting vehicles and armored personnel carriers near the front line.
A critical military correspondent responded to the comment about the “infantry renaissance” and noted that this comment was a negative reflection of Russian equipment losses and poor coordination at the front, which led to a shift to assault tactics.
A telegram channel associated with Russian special forces additionally complained that the reliance on infantry-led frontal assaults was largely attributed to all special forces units that were deployed in Ukraine because Russian command allegedly used special forces in frontal assaults from the very beginning war.
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It is noted that Spetsnaz Forces are not designed to carry out such infantry-led attacks as standard Russian motorized infantry, and some Russian sources are clearly frustrated by the consequences of misusing such Spetsnaz units.
“ISW has already noted that Russian forces are increasingly relying on such frontal infantry attacks, likely to compensate for a lack of adequately trained personnel and due to significant equipment losses,” the report said.
Analysts conclude that the Russian General Staff appears to rely heavily on frontal attacks as the dominant tactic in Ukraine, an important part of the Russian solution to “military parity” problems.
Earlier, the Ukrainian Armed Forces reported that Russian troops began to attack with renewed vigor near Bakhmut in the Donetsk region.
