On a side note, Ukrainian forces are relying on armored units to break through Russian defenses.
So no, tanks/armor is not obsolete. Maybe Russia just used them poorly.
Someone in the Ukrainian high command has been reading about Jaish al-Fatah(Syria) tactics from 2015.
Footage of an Ukrainian soldier surrendering in Azovstal earlier in the war.
Ukranian solider (Azov) swimming and trying to surrender during the seige of Azovstal steel plant while Russian soliders are firing at him.
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( intentional) design and colouring.They are non lethal but are designed to destroy a part of the body usually lower part of the leg hampering the person's mobility for the rest of the life.
Appears to be Butterfly mines which is a scatterable anti-personnel land mine of Soviet and Russian production.They saw their first used in isreal syria war.They were used extensively in Afghanistan by Soviet union and caused high causality among children due to their toy like
I'm further guessing that the intent is to burn away the foliage on the ridge line so that artillery observers and front line troops can be spotted.
https://t.co/F9Czk4ERKp -components-documented-in-eastern-ukraine/