A group of Russian soldiers have been destroyed by Ukrainians with a kamikaze drone after the invading forces appear to have reverted to one of the tricks of the early stages of the war: transporting troops in armored vehicles.

The video shows a group of Russian soldiers being ambushed by a kamikaze drone worth about $500 after Ukrainian operators spotted them aboard an armored personnel carrier.

Although Tendar, one of the accounts known for publishing videos from the war in Ukraine, notes that an entire platoon of Russian soldiers was killed in the strike, since only 9 Moscow soldiers can be counted in the footage, a more accurate estimate would be that a “fire team” was eliminated “, the smallest unit of the ground forces, as a platoon usually consists of several soldiers.

However, what is even more interesting, for quite a long time, similar videos, which show how the Russian military is struck by drones, Stugna-P or Javelin systems, while moving them on armored vehicles or tanks, have almost completely disappeared.

Some analysts believe that, as with other blunders by the invasion force sent by Vladimir Putin to Ukraine, the Russian military may have realized that such actions were generally not a good idea.

The new footage also comes as the British Ministry of Defense estimated in February that the number of casualties recorded by the Russian army had reached its highest level since the war began more than two years ago.

It is reported that the Russian army suffered a record number of casualties last month

According to an estimate released on Sunday by the London-based Ministry of Defence, the estimated average number of Russian casualties in February was about 983 per day, adding that the rise in casualties “almost certainly reflects Russia’s commitment to massive and exhausting warfare”.

“Although it was costly in terms of human lives, the resulting effect increased pressure on Ukrainian positions along the entire front line,” the British assessment added. A graph released by the British Ministry of Defense also showed that Russian military casualties had risen almost continuously since the start of the full-scale invasion.

The highest average daily loss in 2022 is 559 in November. In 2023, the number steadily increased, with the highest average daily loss at 967 in December. The Russian offensive on Avdiivka began in October 2023, which probably caused the increase in losses at the end of 2023.

New information and video footage also emerged last month of Ukrainian military strikes using HIMARS systems on groups of Russian soldiers, with Moscow estimated to have lost more than 100 soldiers in just two such strikes.

In one such attack, the Russian army reportedly lost the most soldiers in a HIMARS strike after the attack on the Makiivka barracks on New Year’s Eve, December 31, 2022.

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