The war in ukraine It has changed almost everything at the military operational levels. After four years and four months of Russian invasion without much success At the territorial level and with a relatively static front for a long time, the priorities today are different from those at the beginning.
Peace remains far away and Putin insists on his total challenge to achieve his objectives in Ukraine “by military means.” But kyiv does not just resist and in many territories and in many phases of the conflict it has taken the lead, .
In this ‘new phase’, drones, one of the great drivers of Ukraine’s military success, have gained a decisive role. With recent data provided by Zelensky’s troops, his Drones are the cause of 90% of Russian casualties on the front currently.
And along with the drones, the focus falls on those truly responsible, the operators. The NATO and many countries take note of the performance that the Ukrainian army has brought out these devices, that they have allowed them on the ground.
For this reason, Russia now aims not so much at the rival infantry, but at the very drone operatorsfor being its true objective. A senior Ukrainian official recently confessed to that “many [de los operadores de drones] They participate in combat and often son priority objectives for the enemy“.
Taras Berezovetshead of the military cooperation department of the Territorial Defense Forces of Ukraine, added that these technicians ““they do exactly the same job” as other soldiers. “To say that they work in much safer conditions is completely wrong.”
“We must never forget that Drone operators are the main target of Russian units“he added during a recent drone summit in Latvia, where Berezovets added that Moscow “tries to kill them”…something that Ukraine is also seeking with its Russian counterparts.
“Drone operators They are above all soldiersand are subject to the same psychological problems and trauma” concluded the military high command.
Dmytro “Liber” Zhluktenkoformer drone operator and now lessons learned analyst in the 413th Unmanned Systems Regiment ‘RAID’ confirmed his ‘colleague’ with the statement that being a drone operator “is very dangerous.”
“In some cases, our drone operators engage in combat with light weapons, as if they were infantry. That is, basically infantry with drones“, he concluded.
