{"id":145353,"date":"2023-08-05T10:21:48","date_gmt":"2023-08-05T14:21:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=145353"},"modified":"2023-08-05T10:21:48","modified_gmt":"2023-08-05T14:21:48","slug":"russian-army-finds-out-a-second-time-that-regular-open-formations-during-hostilities-is-not-a-good-idea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=145353","title":{"rendered":"Russian Army finds out, a second time, that regular open formations during hostilities is not a good idea"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Russian officers felt safe enough to have regularly scheduled open formations. They were in the Kherson area. The Russian leaders in charge of this area went garrison mode, holding troop formations in plain view of Ukrainian aerial drones. Then, one day, the Ukrainians worked with their drone operators to coordinate HIMARS strikes, taking out the mustering troops. This is the second reported incident where the Ukrainians targeted Russian soldiers standing in formations. Approximately 200 soldiers became KIA during each event.<\/p>\n

From Business Insider:<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

The Russian units targeted in a Ukrainian HIMARS attack this week flouted a key wartime rule, military experts told Insider: Don’t gather in big, open spaces.<\/p>\n

Ukraine on Tuesday said it launched a HIMARS attack on five Russian units gathered on a beach resulting in 200 casualties and destroyed equipment. Insider couldn’t independently confirm the number of soldiers killed in the attack.<\/p>\n

Ukrainian media outlets reported that the strike took place on Dzharylhach island, a 26-mile-long sandbank in the Black Sea that’s part of the Russian-occupied Kherson region. The country recently set up training grounds for active military units to recover and train on the island, The Institute for the Study of War reported.<\/p>\n

The country’s National Resistance Center, overseen by the Ukrainian army, posted drone footage of the strike on Facebook, showing Russian soldiers who appeared to be stretching and standing in plain sight on the shore just moments before HIMARS munitions struck.<\/p>\n

“Massing your troops within striking range of the Ukrainians is unwise,” said Simon Miles, an assistant professor at Duke University’s Sanford School of Public Policy who is a historian of the Soviet Union and US-Soviet relations.<\/p>\n

“I don’t know whether the Russian military believed themselves to be far enough away that they enjoyed some kind of sanctuary, but obviously that was not the case,” Miles told Insider.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Business Insider provides the balance of the story here<\/a>. YouTube channel “Reporting from Ukraine” provides a detailed account of this event:<\/p>\n