A few thoughts on the war in Ukraine after Russians pulled out of Kherson...

As God is my witness the way the Russians are fighting the war in Ukraine makes no sense.

A reader pointed out that withdrawing from Kherson is weird and I agree.

Want another kick in the pants?

Russia was RAVAGING Ukrainian power grids and energy production centers with the influx of Iranian drones.

Then they stopped.

I don't understand how they are fighting this thing.

When it comes to actual fighting on the ground that too is a mystery.  They've been at it almost a year and they still aren't fighting as combined arms teams.  The much vaunted Russian armored and armored infantry teams still aren't working together.

Even their attack helos are operating as singles or SMALL groups.

The masters of mass attacks are doing anything but.  Even if they assaulted in a dispersed manner across a broad front and consolidated on an objective ---- that I could understand, but these penny packets of assaults and defense is confusing as hell.

Lastly the UAV war is weird to me.

On the Russian side I get it.  At least I understood the battle plan when they were going after the power grid with loitering munitions (I still consider them UAVs)

The Ukrainians however are using UAVs to attack INDIVIDUAL soldiers on the battlefield (saw a vid of a lone soldier being "grenaded" from a UAV and somehow surviving 3 separate attacks!).

The only thing that I can figure is that they're marshalling their forces for a max effort push later this winter.