On the Donetsk axis, operators of Ukraine's Rarog 427th Unmanned Systems Regiment have successfully halted an enemy assault by striking armored vehicles and key engineering equipment critical to the offensive. The operation disrupted the adversary's attempt to advance toward Ukrainian forces' positions and effectively neutralized the assault group's mobility and protection.

According to the report, Ukrainian drone operators targeted and disabled several enemy tanks and armored vehicles, as well as rare and tactically important MTU-20 bridge-laying vehicle. The loss of this vehicle played a decisive role in stopping the assault, as it was intended to enable armored units to overcome terrain obstacles during the advance.

Losing a bridgelayer like this is a major blunder for Russia and demonstrates a fatal lack of operational cohesion. An armored fighting force should never let this happen unless they already dealing with existential failures to the point that losing the bridgelayer is simply locking in a decisive failure amid pre-existing catastrophe. Even then it is a massive mistake not to pull the equipment and combat engineers back and redirect them elsewhere to parts of the front that they could more safely be used in before this happened.