Most experienced Russian soldiers died early in the war. Those fighting today, including lesser trained recently mobilized forces, struggle to conduct offensive operations and coordinate the movements of large military units. And Russian tanks, having suffered significant losses throughout 2022, are now frequently held back from the front line for use as a sort of artillery.
“They don’t have enough tanks right now,” Graf said. “They don’t have enough artillery to create a barrage of fire.”
“They have changed tactics in the last six months,” he said, describing an assault that relied on a certain degree of strategy atop brute force.
“They did everything perfectly,” he said. “But something didn’t work out for them. Not enough information, as always.”