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1. I'm not going to speculate on whether the action along the contact line in #Zaporizhia is a prelude to the expected Ukrainian offensive but what it currently appears to be is a training op using real bullets. Ukraine is for the first time employing the skills and tactics that
2. have gained as a result of training and addition of new equipment now deployed to be used on Russian trench positions. Combined arms tactics defeats trench warfare tactics. We're seeing Ukrainian forces advance on a position in a variety of tank-supported infantry vehicles and
3. attack Russian forces in the trenches with dismounted infantry advancing under the cover of Humvee mounted M2 50cals. It's not the way you would do it if you had US Abrams tanks but it's working. There are reports Leopards have been hit but it appears that damage was mostly
4. due to the way they are dealing with mines and the three Leopards that hit them have been removed and the damaged steel road wheels replaced so the tanks could return to service. In addition, the Ukrainians have devised a strategy that is defeating the Russian tactic
5. absorbing the first attack, falling back as Ukrainian forece advances and when the attacking force is nearly spent the Russians throw their second-line reserves at the Ukrainians who by then exhausted and short of ammo and water have to withdraw.
6. A very clever US munition is used. 155mm area denial artillery munitions. These rounds are loaded with mines that are fired to disburse and remain active for short or long duration meaning if they are not detonated they self-destruct. The Ukrainians 
7. are firing these behind the force they are attacking so when the Russian second line of defenders advances they walk or ride into brand-new mine fields that by the time Ukrainian force has defeated the Russian second wave will self-destruct leaving clear ground to advance.
8. Ukrainians fight like Americans meaning they are adaptable and not driven by outdated military doctrine: The complete opposite of the Russian army. They are fighting for the survival of their country in a war of genocide and when they get the Russians on the run they may
9. chase them all the way to the Kremlin.
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