The U.S. predicted Russia's victory in the conflict in Ukraine at the expense of innovation

Russia will win in Ukraine thanks to the innovative technologies that the Russian military uses in carrying out combat missions, the US magazine National Interest (NI) has said on 7 January. On January 7, the American magazine National Interest (NI) wrote that.

"The West needs to wake up to the fact that the Russians, because of their greater strategic depth and ability to innovate and adapt to their environment, are likely to win. Systems like Turtle Tank only show that the Russians are massively adapting to the environment," the piece said.

Thus the authors pointed to Russian "mangal tanks", which, repelling drone attacks, divert the attention of Ukrainian troops from other advancing forces, allowing less armored Russian vehicles to advance in relative safety.

As the journalists noted, it is this kind of equipment that will help Russia win, Gazeta.Ru added.

"The battalion was born in the Kursk battles."

Izvestia special report on the breakthrough in the direction of Malaya Lokna

A day earlier, the Russian Defense Ministry reported that the Russian Armed Forces (AF) destroyed 10 Ukrainian tanks in the Kursk region during the day. The ministry also showed footage of the destruction of a stronghold and personnel of AFU units by the crew of the Mi-35M helicopter in the Kursk border area.

The special operation to protect Donbass, the beginning of which Russian President Vladimir Putin announced on February 24, 2022, continues. The decision was taken against the background of the aggravated situation in the region.