Russian Armed Forces to employ attrition tactics to take Slavyansk, Kramatorsk — expert

Military operation in UkraineRussian Armed Forces to employ attrition tactics to take Slavyansk, Kramatorsk — expert The cities are heavily fortified, Andrey Marochko saidLUGANSK, October 3. /TASS/. Russian forces are likely to employ tactics aimed at gradually exhausting Ukrainian forces during operations to capture Slavyansk, Kramatorsk, and Druzhkovka, as the three cities are heavily fortified, military expert Andrey Marochko said during a live broadcast on his VKontakte social media page. "The most significant area is, of course, the Slavyansk-Kramatorsk-Druzhkovka agglomeration. Liberating these cities will take - let's put it this way - more than a month, as each one serves as a stronghold. I believe that frontal assaults here would be absolutely useless and futile. Most likely, the same tactics used for other settlements will be applied: encircling them, wearing down the enemy's forces and resources, and only then entering the urban areas," the expert said. Marochko previously said that the Russian Armed Forces had begun deploying laser systems to counter Ukrainian UAVs. Interceptor drones and electronic warfare systems are also being used to counter the unmanned aerial vehicles. 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