Thread by @TimInHonolulu

1. Tuesday again saw the most intense fighting in Ukraine south of #VelykaNovosilka. Each day the Ukrainian forces appear to apply lessons learned and employ combined arms tactics with advanced Kamikaze drone units to attack Russian infantry and armor units.

2. Russia has fought a trench war for years. Modern mechanized units make these tactics all but obsolete. Ukrainian forces are supported by heavy artillery and drones. Today when the Russians attempted to stop the Ukrainian advance with their Thermobaric tube artillery

3. the inferior thermobaric rocket range made it easy for the Ukrainian counter-battery artillery to target the thermobaric artillery and put it out of action. I've noticed that Ukraine is now deploying full drone attack units along several fronts.

4. While sanctioned Russia and Iran scavenge for western technology to build drones, Ukraine has created a robust drone capacity that is now being deployed across all battle fronts. In the past day, one unit, Magyar's Birds, has destroyed 8 Russian tanks in the Russian rear.

5. The drones transmit video of their attacks that have to have a crushing impact on Russian tank crew morale because the videos are online. In addition highly accurate Ukrainian artillery is destroying Russian equipment that simply can't hide in #Zaporizhia.

6. Ukraine has completed demining the western edge of the area near #Levadne and it appears they are poised to possibly close the line towards the east and create a straight and more-easily defended front to continue their advance.

7. @projectowlosint has added Russian fortifications to their map data shown in orange provided by @Nrg8000 that shows that once the line is set Ukraine will face Russian fortifications that will have to be breached. I know many think this is the offensive that

8. we have been waiting for but I'm not sure it is. I still think it shows evidence of being a very big and dangerous training operation with the real show yet to come. Ukraine is showing that despite not having the air force to control it's skies on the battlefield it is able

9. deploy deadly drones that replace expensive ground attack aircraft with something you might buy you kid for Christmas. War is changing. Adaptation is the key. Russia simply can't adapt and is likely doomed to defeat.