Russia relying on WWII ground tactics leaves vulnerabilities to modern warfare: UK defense - Fox News

Russia connected Friday continued to bombard Ukraine from the skies arsenic its forces stay stalled connected the crushed successful what U.K. defence officials person said is down to antiquated World War II tactics. 

According to outer imagery Russian forces are constructing "extensive antiaircraft positions" on the beforehand lines, peculiarly successful the northern Luhansk region adjacent the metropolis of Svatove which Russian forces are reportedly "prioritizing."

"Russian constructions travel accepted subject plans for entrenchment," the U.K. defence ministry assessed successful its regular update, noting that Russian tactics are "largely unchanged since the Second World War."

FILE - A Ukrainian worker fires a mortar astatine Russian positions successful Bakhmut, Donetsk region, Ukraine, Thursday, Nov. 10, 2022.   (AP Photo/Libkos, File)

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Defense officials pointed retired that these dated practices volition apt mean Russia’s crushed defenses – which person gained small traction successful months and mislaid 2 important cities to Ukrainian forces – are "vulnerable to modern, precision indirect strikes."

"The operation of large antiaircraft lines is further illustration of Russia’s reversion to positional warfare that has been mostly abandoned by astir modern Western militaries successful caller decades," the appraisal added. 

Russia successful the aboriginal hours of Friday greeting launched 1 of the largest rocket strikes crossed Ukraine since the warfare began aft it levied 76 missiles crossed the country, 60 of which were successfully downed by Ukrainian aerial defenses.

Ukrainian soldiers occurrence an artillery astatine Russian positions adjacent Bakhmut, Donetsk region, Ukraine, Sunday, Nov. 20, 2022.  (AP Photo/LIBKOS)

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Cruise missiles were launched from the Black Sea, Caspian Sea and the Engels Air Base, located implicit 370 miles wrong Russian territory and the tract of a drone onslaught earlier this month, which Moscow has blamed connected Kyiv. 

 Ukraine’s Air Force said it besides saw shelling from Belarus arsenic good arsenic "long-range radar detection craft and the MiG-31K combatant pitchy carrying the ‘Kinzhal’ missiles" deployed from the Russian ally.

Ukrainian soldiers occurrence artillery astatine Russian positions adjacent Bakhmut, Donetsk region, Ukraine, connected Nov. 20, 2022.  (AP Photo/LIBKOS)

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Despite the UK appraisal that Russia is relying connected antiquated practices connected the beforehand lines, White House National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby told reporters Friday that Russian President Vladimir Putin is inactive employing "maximalist goals" done his changeless aerial campaigns. 

"On each azygous beforehand you spot a feline that is determined to proceed to prosecute this warfare against Ukraine and much specifically, these days, the Ukrainian civilian population," helium said.

Ukraine has repeatedly called connected its Western allies to assistance it adjacent the skies and halt Russia's aerial campaign.