Video footage showing a Russian tank plowing into a row of mines, even though they are clearly visible on the road, has also caught the attention of Western military analysts, who appear to be equally baffled by the incident.

An incomprehensible gesture of the driver of the Russian armored carPhoto: video shooting

Mark Gertling, the former commander of US forces in Europe from 2011 to 2012, quipped on his Twitter page that:

“So…forget it…anti-tank mines are usually planted. Drivers of armored vehicles should not see them. If you “see” them, you should “stop” to avoid them. Trained soldiers should not pass through them.’

Hertling says the video reinforces the idea that Russian soldiers were not properly trained.

Rob Lee, a researcher and military analyst at the Foreign Policy Research Institute who was widely quoted by Western media after the start of the war in Ukraine on February 24, says instead that the forces with which the Russian army entered the war suffered heavy losses in February-March.

He also recalls that the army sent by Putin to Ukraine then encountered a large number of “refusals”, the number of soldiers who refused to fight reached more than 20-40% in units, and that Moscow’s armed forces then also recorded more casualties. in Donbass.

“The Russian military is increasingly composed of soldiers who volunteered/mobilized after February 24,” he says, again hinting at the poor training of the Russian military.

Most people seem to say that there are no more professional soldiers in the Russian army

Lee’s comments were in response to a question from researcher Dara Massicot of the RAND Corporation, one of the world’s largest military think tanks:

“It is difficult to say what kind of Russian forces these are, since a large percentage of the pre-war crews were wounded or killed. They wear uniforms, but… are they volunteers, ex-prisoners? Since the summer, I’ve been seeing more and more basic driving mistakes.”

Colonel Lawrence Brown, a professor of military science at the US Naval War College, in turn notes about the recording that “even the most experienced person on board the machine, presumably the commander, did not have the experience of the most basic training. , to say “let’s not move objects on the road.”

However, an “ordinary” commentator summed up the situation with a screenshot from a video interview of the Ukrainian military sometime during the war.

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