Ukrainian drone mercilessly blows up Russian motorcycle squad in suicide test in Zaporizhzhia

Russian motorcycle assault tactics have spread to the southern front of Russia’s 40-month wider war on Ukraine. The result in the south is the same as in the east. A lot of Russia’s southern bike troops are getting killed by Ukrainian mines, drones and artillery.

The Ukrainian defenders, possibly from the 65th Mechanized Brigade, were lucky. The thinking behind the Russian bike attacks is perverse, but not insane. “It involves heavy losses, but it still has certain results,” the Ukrainian Peaky Blinders drone unit explained. “For example, 20 motorcycles are going, some of them are destroyed by artillery, some by drones, someone is eliminated by mining and our infantry will get someone in a gun battle.

russian motorcycle assault tactics have spread to the southern front of Russia’s 40-month wider war on Ukraine the result in the south is the same as in the east a lot of Russia’s southern bike troops are getting killed by Ukrainian mines drones and artillery but as in the east the few southern bikers who survive can make dangerous dents in Ukrainian lines the bike attacks are almost always fatal for the troops who attempt them but that doesn’t mean they don’t work ukrainian commanders should think twice before copying the method however the Russians can afford to lose troops the Ukrainians can’t the Ukrainian armed forces southern task force claimed the Russians attacked in the Malanivvka area on Friday but analysts geollocated the site of the attack in Netor Yanka 40 mi to the east in the same Oblast in any event the attack failed as around a dozen bike troops ran over mines got plked by drones or blasted by artillery their plan was doomed to failure the Ukrainian Southern Task Force stated “Our soldiers met the motorcycle assaults with dense fire and as a result all the enemy equipment burned down not a single occupier passed the Ukrainian defenders possibly from the 65th Mechanized Brigade were lucky the thinking behind the Russian bike attacks is perverse but not insane it involves heavy losses but it still has certain results the Ukrainian Piquey Blinders drone unit explained for example 20 motorcycles are going some of them are destroyed by artillery some by drones someone is eliminated by mining and our infantry will get someone in a gun battle but several motorcycles still have a chance to jump into the landing [Music] it only takes a few infiltrating Russian troops to create a lodgement inside Ukrainian lines when that can grow into a larger breach in deploying large numbers of bike troops Russian commanders are playing the odds and betting that a few will eventually ride unscathed past Ukrainian mines drones and artillery behind them is the same group then more and more peiquey Blinders warned the Friday bike attack in Zaparisia may have failed but the next one might not [Music] this costly assault method only works for the Kremlin because it has manpower in abundance motivated by generous enlistment bonuses and apparently believing Russia is winning the wider war 30,000 fresh troops sign up for Russia’s war effort every month that’s slightly more troops than Russia loses every month in Ukraine even the suicidal bike attacks haven’t tipped Russia’s manpower balance into a monthly deficit but Ukraine doesn’t have a durable manpower surplus so it’s worth questioning the decision by one elite Ukrainian unit to form its own motorcycle assault group the 425th Separate Assault Regiment organized its bike company the first in the Ukrainian armed forces last month during the training the fighters spent hundreds of hours behind the wheel and practiced shooting in motion firing thousands of rounds the regiment announced as a result we have a modern cavalry whose main task is to rapidly break into enemy positions carry out assault actions and quickly change the direction of strike but can the regiment afford to lose almost all the bike troops it sends into battle and will the Ukrainian people accept the loss of life [Music] the Russians are determined to advance north in Zaparisia Oblast russian troops conduct six to seven attacks daily in the direction of Malanka the Ukrainian Center for Defense Strategies noted “One of these attacks may eventually succeed and open a gap in Ukrainian lines that Russian reinforcements can exploit.” Even if the effort succeeds it will come at the cost of most of the bike troops carrying out the initial assaults the majority of these bikers are suicidal Peiquey Blinders observed but apparently they are completely satisfied with it [Music] ukraine’s recent assault on air bases across Russia has already ushered in a new conventional wisdom the expensive human crude weapons tanks planes ships that have long defined the world’s advanced militaries have been rendered obsolete by inexpensive drones however this view is incomplete and perhaps dangerously misleading today’s drone warfare offers sobering lessons that go far beyond the vulnerability of expensive legacy weapons and the looming integration of AI into drone warfare will make the current situation look positively quaint consider the lessons of the Ukraine war so far first the impact of drones goes far beyond legacy weapons drones have indeed rendered tanks and armored personnel carriers extremely vulnerable so Russian ground assaults now frequently use troops on foot motorcycles or all-terrain vehicles drones are also effective against almost everything else ukraine has used drones to destroy Russian targets as varied as weapons factories moving trains ammunition stores oil refineries ships and ports it could be worse in fact Ukraine has shown great restraint considering Russia’s barbaric conduct airport terminals train stations at rush hour athletic and concert stadiums pharmaceutical factories hospitals schools nursing homes all are equally vulnerable [Music] i don’t know [Music] [Music] [Music] yeah [Music] [Music] heat [Music] is just [Music] Let’s go [Music] [Applause] [Music] let’s get away [Music] [Music]