Business Insider
“What we’re currently seeing is a new phase of the war,” Kateryna Stepanenko, a Russian warfare expert at the Institute for the Study of War, a US-based think tank, told Business Insider.
Stepanenko said that Ukraine’s military planning has evolved and shifted away from simply reacting to assaults in front of them “to actually thinking long-term” in order “to disrupt Russian ability to bring up troops and equipment closer to the battlefield and therefore disrupt Russian preparations for offensive operations.'”
She said another help is the Ukrainian government’s new awards program, which rewards soldiers for battlefield kills with points they can use to buy equipment like drones. It can reward pursuing important targets that are harder to reach, helping units focus beyond the immediate targets for strategic effect.
