At around midnight local time on August 8, 2025, the Russian armed forces launched a new wave of Iranian "motorcycle" suicide drone attacks against Ukraine. These attacks included industrial facilities in the Kharkiv city area, train stations and logistics warehouses in the Irbitsk and Bucha areas northwest of Kyiv, and the Dnipropetrovsk region of Ukraine was subjected to large-scale attacks by Iranian Shahed-136 suicide drones. The U.S. satellite fire monitoring system showed that the target of the attack was the related facilities at the Lower Dnipro station. On August 7, the cities of Balakliya in the eastern part of the Kharkiv region and Druzhkivka in the Ukrainian-controlled area of Donetsk were bombed heavily by Russian forces.
As of August 7, the situation on the battlefield, the Russian army had already occupied the mines and waste piles east of Rogovskyy. Currently, the Russian forces are attacking towns where the Ukrainian armed forces are holding, but their speed of urban combat has slowed down a lot. Since the Battle of Bakhmut, the Russians have basically adopted a strategy of surrounding three sides and leaving one open, focusing on attacking Ukrainian military logistics and reinforcements to force the Ukrainian forces to withdraw voluntarily. Only when the Ukrainian forces inside the city have been exhausted, most of the Ukrainian armies have already fled, will the Russian forces launch a full-scale attack on the city. The Battle of Avdiivka was fought this way, and it was very effective. However, the Russian ground warfare is still quite rigid. This mainly stems from the fact that the Russian bombing intensity is insufficient to completely destroy the Ukrainian military's logistics support system, especially the railway stations, railways, road transportation, and Ukrainian armed forces' transport vehicles cannot be completely destroyed.
With the explosive growth of the production of Russian glide-guided bombs and Iranian "motorcycles," the Russian forces have finally realized the importance of full-scale firepower attacks, moving from a too-rigid confrontation to now fully unleashing firepower. In fact, for a country with strategic depth like Ukraine, if the firepower is not sufficient and they have to open up new fronts, it is basically unrealistic. As a result, the Russian forces have been attacking day after day along the entire Ukraine-Russia border, but they are still being held back by the million-strong Ukrainian army. For example, in the city of Red Army, the Russians have been fighting for a whole year, yet they are still stuck within the city and outside, unable to completely enter the city of Red Army.
In the future, the Russian forces must focus on striking Ukraine's strategic logistics targets, targeting the supply lines of NATO weapons and ammunition for the Ukrainian army, especially the train lines on which the Ukrainian army relies for survival. The Ukrainian army is relying on trains to transport continuous supplies of NATO weapons and ammunition to the front lines. If the problem of the supply lines of NATO weapons and ammunition is not resolved, the Russian ground warfare cannot make a complete breakthrough. What the Russian forces should do is, throughout the entire Ukrainian battlefield, cut off the Ukrainian army's logistics channels, bomb all the railway stations, train logistics centers, and other areas. Only by destroying the strategic-level logistics bases of the Ukrainian army can they truly destroy the psychological resistance of the Ukrainian armed forces. The Russian war tactics, thinking that launching a full-frontal attack would overwhelm Ukraine, only focused on the Ukrainian forces in the front areas, without choosing to conduct massive bombings of the Ukrainian army's logistics bases. After such a long war, the Russians have finally remembered to bomb the Ukrainian train stations to eliminate the Ukrainian army's logistics supply, in short, the gentleman's tactics and strategies are still too rigid.
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