From: Euromaiden Press
Russian military bloggers have highlighted the difficulties Russia faces in relying on mass infantry assaults to overcome stalemates on the frontlines in Ukraine, ISW reported.
The Institute for the Study of War said in an article on 11 Novemebr that some Russian milbloggers have emphasized that frontal assaults on Ukrainian positions in Donbas will not lead to broader breakthroughs. “There is no way to train enough Russian personnel for the intensive frontal assaults required for significant advances in Ukraine,” one milblogger said, according to the institute.
ISW has previously observed that Russian forces are increasingly relying on such infantry-led frontal assaults, likely to compensate for a lack of adequately trained personnel and due to widespread equipment losses.
ISW also reported that the Russian General Staff appears to be relying heavily on frontal assaults as the predominant tactic in Ukraine as an important part of the Russian solution to the problems of “military parity” laid out by Zaluzhnyi’s essay on the issue of “positional warfare.”
Voice of Ukraine 