Originally Posted by
The Helpful Stacker
Indeed.
It's ridiculous how many times within this thread posters have made 'suggestions' that are pretty much exactly what Ukrainian forces have been doing so far.
It's almost as if such tactics are pretty universally understood....
Fine but for some things there are no reasons obvious to people who are aware of tactics and it's reasonable to puzzle " why " ?
Given the small distances involved and the major potential gain, why are the Ukrainians not dispatching small groups/squads to attack soft and valuable targets like fuel -tankers and ammo trucks in the supply column moving towards Kiev ? If they hit tankers at different points along the convoy, this would halt progress, destroy surrounding vehicles ( maybe ), unsettle troops and give them more work in standing patrol/chasing attackers. The attackers would have a good chance of retreating unscathed through the heavily-wooded terrain.
Since this seems to offer major gains at very very low risk, general knowledge of obvious tactics forces one to ask "why " ?