Ukraine launched new points for Russian plan

Images come every day. Thousands of them.

Men and equipment are being hunted with long, front lines of Ukraine. Everything was filmed, login and counted.

And now also to use, because the Ukrainian army tries to remove every profit against its more powerful rival.

The first trial was done last year under a plan and dubbed “Army of Drone: Bonus” (also known as “e-points”), units can destroy each Russian soldier’s killed or piece of equipment.

And like a Kristress in call of duty, or in the 1970s TV game show, the points mean the award.

“More strategically important and large -scale targets, more points are achieved by a unit,” reads a statement from the team in Brave 1, which brings the government and army experts together.

“For example, destroying an enemy several rocket launch systems earns up to 50 points; 40 points are provided for a destroyed tank and 20 digits for 20 damaged.”

Call it simplification of war.

Each uploaded video has now been carefully analyzed in Kive, where marks are provided according to the constant set of military preferences.

Ministers of Ukraine’s Digital Transformation Mychelo Fedorov, Michelo Fedorov, Michelo Fedorov, Digital Transformation of Ukraine, Mychelo Fedorov, says, “I think, first and most importantly, it is about the mathematics of quality, and to understand the way to use the math of the war, and the way it is more effective resources.”

But three and a half years of piece, after the all-out war, is another important use of the system.

“It is also about inspiration,” Fedorov says. “When we change point values, we can see how inspiration changes.”

Fedorov’s office sported a huge video screen with dozens of live feeds from Ukrainian drones on the lines of the front.

Together, feed Ukraine’s drone provides a vivid glimpse in the war, claiming that the flying robots now account for the estimated 70% of all Russian deaths and injuries.

Since the early days of Russia’s full -scale invasion, the social media is filled with feed drone videos, usually set on the soundtrack of heavy metal music.

A tank’s turret, explosion in a ball of flame. Close a single soldier, a rifle or an attack drone with a stick.

It can make it fierce to look. Each video celebrates the death of a rival. The video is getting fuzzy in the form of a drone.

But beyond the spirit of serious satisfaction, the hard-pired front-line units now work in the knowledge that evidence of their exploits can bring him prizes.

The BBC reached more than a dozen units, to find out what the front line soldiers of the scheme make. The reactions were mixed.

“In general, my colleagues and I are positive,” said Volodimier, a soldier of the 108th Territorial Defense Brigade. He asked us not to use his surname.

At a time when frontline units are burning through equipment, specifically attacking drones, at a cruel rate, Volodimier says that the e-points scheme is proving useful.

“This is a way that we lose … while damaging the disadvantage on the enemy as effectively as possible.”

The 22nd mechanized brigade, which is currently fighting in the north-east of the country, is about three months to use for the new system.

“Once we came to know how it works, it became a fairly decent system,” a soldier from 22nd said with a callsine jack.

Jack said, “Our leads are worn, and nothing really inspires them.” “But this system helps. The drones are provided through this program, and the leads are rewarded. This is a decent inspiration.”

But others are less confident.

A soldier said, “The fundamental issue of inspiration has not been resolved by it.”

“Points will not be able to stop the people who run away from the army.”

A soldier who recognized himself as Dymytro sent us a long response to complain that units are trying to claim each other’s hits or trying to attack a Russian vehicle to earn more time or deliberately attack a Russian vehicle.

For Dymytro, the entire concept looked morally suspicious.

“This system is just a result of our twisted mental habit of converting everything into profit,” Dimeiro complained, “even our own cursed death.”

But the e-points scheme is specific in the way Ukraine has fought this war: creative, out-of-the-box thinking is designed to create the country’s most innovative skills and reduce the impact of its numerical loss.

Fedorov says that 90–95% of fighting units are now participating, providing a stable stream of useful data.

“We have started getting quality information and started taking decisions based on it,” they say.

“By collecting data, we can propose changes, but the foundation is always a military strategy.”

In an anonymous office block in Kiev, we met some analysts whose job is to be put on footage, verify each hit and verify the prize points to the responsible unit.

We were asked not to reveal the location or use real names.

“We have two categories: hits and destroyed,” Volodia told us. “So a different amount of e-point goes into different categories.”

It turns out that encouraging a Russian soldier to surrender is worth more points than killing one – the prisoner of war can always be used in future deals on prisoners exchanges.

“If for one … killed Russian then you get a point,” Volodia said, “If you capture it then you multiply it by 10.”

Volodia’s team analyzes thousands of hits every day.

“The most difficult part is artillery,” he said, showing us a video of a special navigate drone through trees and in a trench where a gun hides.

“Russians are great in hiding and digging.”

As the Russian strategy has developed, there is also an e-point system.

The use of small, testing units of Moscow, walking or riding a motorbike, means that the value of an individual soldier has increased, relative to a tank or other armored vehicle.

“While the murder of an enemy soldier earlier earned 2 points,” Bahadur 1 read in 1 statement, “Now it earns 6.” 6. “

And enemy drone operators are always more valuable than drones.

The system of awards is also being refined.

So far, units are capable of converting their points into cash, which many people have used to purchase badly required additional equipment, with congestion source.

Now the e-point system is being integrated directly into something called The Brave 1 Market, which designers describe as “The Amazon for War”.

Soldiers can browse more than 1,600 products, use their accumulated points, buy items directly from manufacturers and leave reviews, lift the tab later with the Ministry of Defense.

Brave 1 market is designed to sit with traditional, cumbersome military procurement, rather than replacing it. It is expected that units will have access to preferred goods from drones to components and unmanned ground vehicles (users), which can vacate the injured soldiers from dangerous frontline posts.

Points to kill. Amazon for war. For some ears, it can all be cruel, even callus.

But this is war and is determined to catch Ukraine. Effectively, and fighting efficiently as it can do this.