Overview
- Ukraine’s 5th Assault Battalion of the 92nd Separate Assault Brigade posted undated footage that appears to track and strike Russian soldiers on horseback.
- News outlets reporting on the clip said they could not independently verify the video, while Ukrainian officials claimed the riders were killed.
- The brigade said repeated equipment losses during infantry “meat assaults” have driven some Russian troops to use horses, with prior experiments including motorcycles and pack animals.
- Forbes reported that Russian media noted limited training on mounted elements, and analysts described these adaptations as responses to a battlefield dominated by reconnaissance and FPV strike drones.
- Reporting also details wider tactical effects of drones, including degraded vehicle mobility, increased use of unmanned ground vehicles for resupply in the Pokrovsk sector, and small, low‑signature assault groups.