How did electronic warfare help Russia turn the tide in the tough battle in Donbass?

After being unable to penetrate deep inside the capital Kiev, the Russian army focused on attacking the Donbass region, in the east of the country, where a large number of Russian-speaking people live.

The new report shows that Russian forces are increasingly intercepting Ukrainian military communications while jamming enemy navigation and navigation systems.

“They’re jamming everything their system can reach,” an official from Aerorozvidka, Ukraine’s agency that develops unmanned aerial vehicles and other military capabilities, told The Associated Press. on 3/6.

“We cannot say that they are dominant, but they hinder us a lot,” the official said.

Accordingly, Russia jammed GPS receivers on drones of Ukrainian forces used to locate enemy targets.

Currently, the Russian military is said to be about to drive Ukrainian forces out of Severodonetsk – Kiev’s last “fortress” of resistance in Luhansk.

Earlier, a report by the US Congressional Research Service published in April said that “the Russian military does not appear to make much use of the electronic warfare systems it developed before the war”.

“We have not seen what we believe is the full extent of Russia’s electronic warfare capabilities,” commented a senior Pentagon official.

US allies have previously sounded the alarm about Russia’s superior electronic warfare capabilities. A report from an Estonian think tank said that Russian electronic warfare technology would “pose a serious challenge to the proper planning and execution of NATO defensive operations against Baltic States”.

Another report by the defense think tank Janes shows that, in fact, Ukraine also developed electronic warfare systems after Russia annexed Crimea in 2014.

When Russia launched the attack in Donbass, in April, the research team reported that the Russian military was increasing the use of “electronic warfare” along with more drones and increasing coordination. artillery with mobile units.