Ukrainian Warfare Tactics Greatly Impact Russian Advance

The intensity and tactical proficiency of Ukrainian warfare may be having an extremely significant and perhaps somewhat unanticipated impact upon Russia’s ability to successfully invading Ukraine with a much larger ground force armed with massive amounts of firepower.

Ukrainian Warfare Tactics

These Ukrainian tactics apparently include things like dispersed, hit-and-run anti-armor ambushes on approaching Russian convoys and efforts to find and destroy or disrupt intersections and key choke points crucial to a Russian advance. 

“Ukrainian armed forces are over performing and Russian armed forces are underperforming,” Gen. Ben Hodges (Ret), former Commander of US Army Europe, told Warrior in an interview.

The Pentagon says the much-observed Russian convoy is likely stalled for a number of interwoven reasons, according to Senior DoD officials who say it appears due to logistical challenges such as fuel and food shortages, low morale and Ukrainian ambush tactics. Retired Gen. Ben Hodges said the apparent lack of coordination and warfare preparation on the part of the Russian force seems somewhat surprising.

“The logistics are turning out to be a real vulnerability for the Russians. You would think they would be much better prepared in terms of fuel and ammunition. They grossly overestimated how fast they have been able to move and now this big convoy is road bound because the road is so soft and the Ukrainians are having an effect,” Hodges told Warrior in an interview.

However, Hodges was also clear that he observed what appears to be a specific Russian tactical shift to “adapt” amid their struggles. This adaptation, he said, pertains to an effort to attempt a war of “attrition” by killing civilians instead of launching a well-integrated joint campaign.

View interview on YouTube: Ukrainian Warfare Tactics Greatly Impact Russian Advance