Thread by @HeliosRunner

1/ The Armed Forces told how the Russians changed their tactics in the #Bakhmut area : Currently, #Donbas is the main front of the struggle for the independence of Ukraine, noted the speaker of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
The Russians have changed their tactics in one of the

2/ hottest areas.
#Russian occupiers have changed the tactics of conducting hostilities in the #Bakhmut region of the Donetsk region.

Serhiy Cherevaty, the spokesman of the Eastern Group of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, said in an informational tv appearance that the occupiers

3/ are concentrating their main efforts on the #Bakhmut & Avdiivka directions. Attacks & assaults take place there, the enemy uses all types of artillery, rocket launchers and aviation.

"The enemy has changed tactics. Instead of using company-battalion orders, he now creates

4/ such assault squads & groups, and already these groups are divided into subgroups that directly assault, and others cover them with fire. We study these tactics and for every such military poison we have an antidote," Cherevaty said.

He also said that this tactic is primarily

5/ used by the "Wagners", but it is also used by other types of enemy troops that are involved in attacks on Ukrainian positions.

Cherevaty noted that the Ukrainian military is actively monitoring the occupiers and trying to preemptively act.

"We are strengthening surveillance

6/ with our unmanned systems and stationary ones. We are trying to identify the enemy in advance and hit him with artillery, mortars, when approaching our positions with the fire of our small arms," ​​said the spokesman of the Armed Forces. According to him, now #Donbas is the

7/ main front of the struggle for Ukraine's independence.

"It is the main focus of the enemy's efforts to push through our defenses, trying to get to the rear and seize the entire Ukrainian Donbas - this is the primary plan," Cherevaty emphasized.

"In general, the front now has

8/ such an interesting configuration, when one cannot say that one side is in a state of attack, and the other is in blind defense. This is a dynamic process now, there are actually such binary processes, when we counterattack the enemy at the slightest opportunity and try to

9/ knock them out of their positions . And the enemy, where he has an advantage and sees that he can carry out attacks, he does it," added the speaker of the Armed Forces.
Read also:
The failure of the BTG concept among the Russians
frontnews.eu/en/news/detail…

10/ Also according to British intelligence, over the past three months, Russian troops in Ukraine have mostly stopped deploying in the form of battalion tactical groups (BTGs) . 

The BTG concept has played an important role in Russian military doctrine for the past 10 years.

11/ However, during large-scale, high-intensity hostilities in Ukraine, several internal shortcomings of this concept were revealed.

As analysts at the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) note, since April, Russian BTGs have been degraded during various failed or completed

12/ Russian offensives. The exhausting attacks of the Russian Federation on #Kyiv, #Mariupol, #Severodonetsk and #Lysychansk #Popasna #Kharkiv etc also played a role.
if not major as no more adequate materials translate to incapacity to use such "structure"

13/ After the aggressor country lost its BTG, and with them its strength, the Russian command tried to restore combat power and re-create battalion tactical groups. However, it was not crowned with success.

Previously, the spokesman of the Eastern Group of Forces, Cherevaty,

14/ already said that the enemy had changed tactics in the Bakhmut direction, concentrating on small groups. In particular, the mercenaries of the "Wagner" PMC create small assault groups that try to act in a dispersed manner in order to reach our positions as quickly as possible

15/ and try to penetrate into the trenches.
and as i explained early in the war or showed like here :

https://twitter.com/HeliosRunner/status/1534267083198017537

when Ru had full load of ammo is that it takes a lot of shell to dislodge troops, or you need special systems/ammo like Excalibur or Ukr/German equiva

16/ but if you don't get yourself a very precise CAS and precise arty to deter the said entrenches troops, then you are in for a true ww1 type of war.
(or course you can use drones, but they have a short life span right now and can't be use just to replace some heavy helos / A10

17/ that could "straff" the Ru mercenaries.

also even if we saw it coming

https://twitter.com/HeliosRunner/status/1586270400517906433

it seems like in the famous Lamarck/Darwin discussion we are still wondering if it's only because they couldn't do different that they transformed like that and or if Wagner with

18/ it's own form of organization was able to "generate" this change, because in such disastrous armored etc support, they had anyway to come up with something that is "functioning" (not great, but they also do as they can).
Anyway, that's what is happening now on the frontline.