MOSCOW, February 7. /TASS/. Russian servicemen are on the offensive in almost all areas of the special military operation zone thanks to the adjustments made to the tactics of combat operations, a senior defense official said.
"In the end, this allowed us to take the initiative and conduct an offensive in almost all directions," Russian General Staff Deputy Chief Colonel General Vasily Trushin, who also serves as Russian Military Scientific Committee Chairman, said in an interview with the Krasnaya Zvezda newspaper. "First of all, it concerns the issues of gaining air supremacy and fire superiority over the enemy, disorganizing its control system," he pointed out.
According to Trushin, "the changes concerned the organization of counter-battery warfare, long-range fire, the use of high-precision weapons in conditions of intensive electronic countermeasures, protection against drones, the use of new means of defeat, such as loitering munitions, FPV-drones."
"We have also developed effective methods of organization of combat use of operational-tactical and army aviation in conditions of not fully suppressed enemy air defense system, the use of tanks in conditions of anti-tank means of high efficiency. The methods of troop and fire control with the use of automated reconnaissance and control systems have been significantly improved," Trushin said.
He emphasized that "all this is the result of the collective creativity of commanders, staffs and the entire personnel of battlegroups." "This is the basis of the combat experience gained during the special military operation," the defense official emphasized.