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Youcranion Intelligence is warning that a Russian Lancet Freelancer Roaming in the sky, hovering over Kramatorsk, like a heron over a fish pond, ready to attack.
A laptop shows multiscreen images of doctors and Russian soldiers running through a deforested forest Ukrainian sights, bunkers are being blown up – Everyday terror.
This is the future of war – and the West is unprepared for what could come in open conflict. Russia: mass casualties and a change of battle beyond anything NATO’s Armies are training.
The laptop feed is for Rebekah Maciorowski American volunteer paramedic Which runs medical operations, evacuation and training for an entire battalion of men and women Ukrainian Eastern Front, under its 3rd Brigade. In a conventional war, she would be a dominant. In this struggle? He has no idea what his rank is and he couldn’t care less.
But the revelations of this frontline soldier who has the rare claim of shooting down an incoming Russian Freelancer Attacking their patients and freezing them.
“You have had an encounter with nato Training team. I have talked to you nato When you come back to Europe. Do you think they are ready for the next war? Russia, Independent Asks him.
“No. No, I’m honestly a little scared,” she replies – later. Over 40 months of war Here.
She continues: “If you were to talk to NATO military officials, they would assure you that everything is under control, they are well equipped, they are well prepared. But I don’t think anyone could be prepared for this kind of conflict. I don’t think anyone could.
“And what’s worrying to me is that they’re offering training [in Europe for Ukrainians]I think it would be good for them to get some information and training from the Ukrainians.
Maciorowski has trained with NATO forces for the past year and says what he learned was relevant to Afghanistan and Iraq – not ukraine,
“When I went to train with NATO, the drone aspect wasn’t really filtered. It was largely the same tactics that were learned in the last war. And these tactics don’t apply anymore because you’re not doing a linear attack.
“Everything has changed with drones. And I don’t think it was factored into it, at least not in this training,” she says in her secret medical evacuation headquarters.
His teams evacuate wounded soldiers using quad bikes as armored ambulances are now death traps, while quad drones can run through forests and dugouts trying to avoid them.
But his team suffers heavy losses. Last week, a top doctor, callsign Viking, was killed on a rescue mission east of Slavyansk. A few weeks before that, another driver was blown up by a bomb Freelancer,
“I don’t see other Europeans facing this,” she says.
NATO leaders and intelligence agencies agree that Europe, in particular, is already involved in a hybrid war. RussiaThis includes propaganda to weaken democracy, cyber attacks, sabotage and murders,
More recently, this has also included investigating attacks inside Poland. Estonia by Russian plane And constant challenges at sea.
There can never be a total war. This may also be inevitable.
Vladimir Putin It has made it clear that he wants to bring the Baltic states back under Russian rule and has plans to take over countries throughout Eastern Europe that were once dominated by Moscow.
Ukrainians and Georgians know that when they say such things, they are attacking.
If it comes to war, Russia has the experience of modern warfare which only Ukraine has.
An official operating in Pokrovsk, where Ukraine says Russia is concentrating 150,000 people in an infiltration bid Ukrainian Lines, describing the fighting there as “hell”. In the heat of this hell a new perspective is being forged.
“We are changing the structure of warfare on the fly,” says Oleksandr Yabchanka, commander of a drone unit in the 59th Brigade, the Da Vinci Wolves.
“Bad news for Ukraine and Europe. Russia is adapting just like us. It is a huge threat and is greatly underestimated in Europe.”
A spokesman for the British-led program Operation Interflex said that 61,000 Ukrainian The troops were trained to “put them in the strongest position possible to resist ongoing Russian attacks”.
He said Ukrainian military experts and drone operators had served as advisers to train troops going into combat and that 91 percent of Ukrainian soldiers who completed NATO basic training “feel more confident about their survival at the end of the training”.
However, a recent study by Jack Watling Royal United Services Institute (The Russians) warned that NATO needs to understand that warfare has changed.
The advent of small, lethal drones, often flown with first-person vision (FPV), often guided by fiber-optic cables, and capable of delivering precision far beyond what is considered the front line, has transformed the conflict.
NATO doctrine focuses on what it calls “combined arms maneuver”. It means emphasizing the concentration of aircraft, armour, infantry and artillery for the purpose of surprising and defeating the enemy.
He doesn’t work anymore.
Dr. Watling explains that “extensive networks and sensors have made the ability to achieve surprise difficult”. Known as battlefield transparency, modern surveillance of battlefields means that a surprise attack is almost impossible.
Furthermore, the “ubiquity of precision weapons” makes concentrated forces vulnerable to “rapid destruction”.
Armored vehicles, engineering equipment, electronics war kit – all this can be seen and picked up easily and from long distances.
This means that the front lines are wide, deep, dispersed, and almost empty of infantry.
NATO’s approach is to counter large-scale attacks by Russia’s “near peer” forces. But Russia’s strategy is no longer focused on mass — the number of people and weapons that were used against Ukraine three years ago matter.
Now Ukrainian forces are being attacked with long-range glide bombs. Russian drones hunt down Kiev’s UAV teams in their bunkers and drive them away from their front lines. And to top it all, logistics lines have been extended with terrifying precision.
As a result, small groups of two or four Russians covertly sneak into front-line positions to try to capture bunkers and dugouts, while Ukrainian drones patrol above.
Soldiers use blankets designed to suppress their thermal images, sometimes placed over them on poles, to reach locations where they can remain hidden for weeks or months.
Ukrainian soldiers do the same. And now that their communication lines have been cut, they are completely dependent on food and ammunition supplies as well as medical supplies from drones in the air or on the ground.
In Afghanistan, 99.2 percent of British Army casualties who were taken to the main Helmand hospital at Camp Bastion survived – mostly because they were taken there from the front lines within the first “golden hour” after their injuries.
In any war with Russia, it could take days or weeks to evacuate a seriously injured NATO soldier. And the number of injuries in any one incident or drone blast is likely to be high.
“Wounds, injuries are devastating,” Maciorowski explains. “And they are increasing because the scope of impact of drones dropping grenades or explosive devices is very large.
“So you can take out a whole group, all of them wounded at once. We’re not seeing hand-to-hand combat anymore.
“We are now looking at long-term field care; those who are unable to evacuate and giving medical advice over the radio, making sure that when people come to the unit, every soldier is trained like a medic because we don’t have enough medics, and there is no guarantee that they can get to an injured soldier in time.
“Therefore every soldier needs to be a highly trained medic… so that he can treat himself and those around him.”
NATO’s regular armed forces are rarely trained how to treat themselves over long periods of time with antibiotics and intravenous drips.
And, above all, they are unprepared for the potential mass casualties that NATO forces would suffer in a conflict with Russia.
“We can’t almost comprehend the scale of those losses,” says Ed Arnold, a former British Army officer who is now with the Russians.
Gangrene is common among Ukrainian soldiers because they have been on the front lines for so long. The UK’s largest mobile field hospital has a capacity of only 80 general beds and 10 beds for intensive care.
In a war like Ukraine, where Britain and NATO can expect hundreds of casualties every day, they simply do not have the capacity to deal with it.
“We must have Ukrainian training [British officers] At Sandhurst (Royal Military Academy) at the moment,” says Arnold.
“There should be a resident Ukrainian platoon that rotates regularly, giving us real information about what’s going on.”