Russian state media have begun reporting how forces sent by President Vladimir Putin to Ukraine have begun using “kamikaze” combat vehicles, a tactic some analysts have compared to that used by insurgents in Third World countries, reports
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In a video that appeared on social media on Sunday, Russian soldiers can be seen loading a 70-year-old T-54 or T-55 tank with explosives, also equipped with simple radio controls, to send it to the front against Ukrainian positions.

However, state media in Moscow have reported other similar situations in the past few days.

For example, the RIA Novosti news agency, which last week claimed that Ukrainian General Kyrylo Budanov was seriously wounded by a missile that fell near his office, on Saturday quoted a Russian army officer who spoke about the use of another kamikaze machine.

“Approximately 300 meters from the enemy, the driver turned on the gear, maneuvered to the side of the road and jumped out of it,” he told the Russian Agency. The officer also claimed that the maneuver resulted in the killing of a “significant number” of Ukrainian troops, which cannot be independently verified.

Another video released by TASS, Russia’s most prominent state news agency, showed a car compartment filled with a bomb and explosives. Although the powerful explosions of this advanced equipment, shot from Russian positions, may look impressive, the effectiveness of the tactic is more difficult to assess.

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“Load the tank with explosives, have a volunteer drive it, then jump out of it, aiming it at the enemy. What a stupid way the Russians are conducting armored operations,” said General Mark Hertling, former commander of US forces in Europe, in an interview with CNN.

He reiterated his assessment in a post published on Twitter.

By the way, in the videos that appeared on social networks at the end of last week, it can be seen how the “kamikaze” tank did not go very far, crawling 100 meters, ran into a mine, and then was fired upon by an anti-tank missile of Ukrainian troops.

Some analysts point out that the Russian military’s resort to such tactics is a symbol of the precarious state in which the invasion forces sent by Vladimir Putin to Ukraine last year found themselves.

Hugo Caaman, a researcher at the Middle East Institute who specializes in car bomb-laden suicide bombers, Write it down on Twitter that such improvised bombs are typically used by technologically inferior forces, such as Islamist insurgents, who lack the air power needed to destroy enemy strongholds and heavy military equipment.

Russia, of course, has aviation, but it used it far from the battlefield due to heavy losses in the early stages of the war.

Analysts consider the Russian Air Force’s inability to gain an advantage over Ukraine to be one of the decisive factors that prevented the Russian military from winning the war.

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