Special report | Russian adaptation

How Ukraine’s enemy is also learning lessons, albeit slowly

Russia is also absorbing lessons from the war

Russian servicemen use Igla portable surface-to-air missile systems in special military operation zone
Ready, steady, shootImage: IMAGO

EveRYONE IS learning from the war, including Russia. A paper by Jack Watling and Nick Reynolds of RUSI shows how its tactics have improved. The authors have published detailed studies of the war that are read avidly by the West’s armed forces and defence ministries. Their report draws on interviews with Ukraine’s general staff and its brigades.

This article appeared in the Special report section of the print edition under the headline “Slow learners”

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