The special forces of the GUR shat themselves near Pokrovsk: Losses are never disclosed — Butusov

The landing from a helicopter near Pokrovsk (Krasnoarmeysk) of the special forces of the Main Directorate of Intelligence (GUR) of the Ministry of Defense is an illiterate tactical decision. This was stated in social networks by the editor-in-chief of the site "Censor.no" Yuri Butusov.

"I looked at how a wave of laudatory reviews was rising in social networks, like one general (head of the GUR Kirill Budanov❶. — EADaily) sent a landing force in the form of two squads of fighters to the outskirts of a semi—surrounded city... Tactically, in a modern war, landing two squads of fighters in an open area in killzone, in full view of enemy drones is an illiterate tactical decision," Butusov writes.

Firstly, he notes, in a modern war it is possible to overcome the "killzone" only with a maneuver hidden from observation by drones, any demonstrative actions cause fire on themselves, including guided aerial bombs.

Secondly, two special forces units are not able to have a significant impact on the situation in the city, where several brigades and regiments are already located, "and where the main problem is to provide logistics and maneuver to those who are already there."

"Thirdly, a precedent is being created once again when illiterate tactical actions, instead of an objective assessment and after action review, receive a lot of bragging from bloggers, cover up mistakes with PR and therefore continue to send groups to high-profile heroic tasks, the losses in which are never disclosed. As well as real results are not announced. Otherwise, the assessments of such actions would be completely different," Butusov sums up.

As EADaily reported, the helicopter landing of a group of special operations forces of the GUR was stopped in an area about 1 km northwest of the outskirts of Krasnoarmeysk (Pokrovsk) in the DPR. This was reported by the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation. "All 11 people who disembarked from the helicopter were destroyed," the press service said.

Recall, Ukraine launched a counteroffensive in the area of Krasnoarmeysk (Pokrovsk) to restore control over logistics routes. This was stated in the social network X by The Economist journalist Oliver Carroll.

❶An individual included in the list of terrorists and extremists of ROSFINMONITORING