Ukraine launches new points for killing Russians scheme

The images come every day. Thousands.

Men and equipment are hunting along the long, controversial fronts of Ukraine. Everything was taken, attempted and counted.

And now the Ukrainian army has put it to use while trying to get every advantage he can do against his much stronger opponent.

Under a scheme called the first tried last year and called the “Drone Army: Bonus” (also known as “E-Points”), the units can earn points for every Russian military or destroyed equipment killed.

And a Killstreak on Call of Duty or a Killstreak on the 1970s TV game show.

“If the target is more strategically important and large -scale, the score that a unit has more points,” Brave explains the government and the experts from the team from the team and the army.

“For example, destroying an enemy earns multiple rocket launching system up to 50 points, 40 points for a destroyed tank and 20 points for a damaged tank.”

Call this to play the war.

Each video uploaded is now carefully analyzed in Kiev, where scores are given according to a constantly developing military priorities.

“Everything and most importantly, quality data, mathematics of war, and how limited resources will be used more effectively,” Ukrainian Digital Transformation Minister Mykhailo Fedorov says.

But after three and a half years of grinding, after the whole war, the system has another vital use.

“It’s also about motivation, Fed says Fedorov. “When we change the point values, we can see how motivation changes.”

Fedorov’s office is flying at the front row, a large video screen with dozens of live feed from Ukrainian drones.

Together, the feeds offer a vibrant look at the drone war of Ukraine, where the estimation of all the Russian deaths and injuries of the flying robots of the commanders is 70%.

Since the first days of Russia’s full -scale invasion, social media broadcasts are often full of drone videos set to Thudding film music.

The tank of a tank exploded in a flame ball. Only one soldier threw a drone attacking with a rifle or a rod.

He can make a terrible view. Every video celebrates a opponent’s death. As the drone explodes, the video turns blurry.

However, beyond a terrible sense of satisfaction, the difficult front line units are now operating in the knowledge that the evidence of their abuse can bring them awards.

The BBC reached more than a dozen units to find out what the front line troops were doing about the plan. The answers were mixed.

108. Volodymyr, a soldier from the Regional Defense Brigade, said, “In general, my comrades and I are positive.” He asked us not to use his surname.

He says that the façade units are burned through equipment, especially attack drones prove that the e-Points scheme is useful at a wild proportion.

“This is a way to compensate for what we have lost … as effective as possible in harming the enemy.”

The 22nd Mechanized Brigade, who currently fought in the north -east of the country, spent about three months to get used to the new system.

“After realizing how it works, it turned out to be a very good system,” Callsign Jack and a soldier from 22.

“Our women are worn out and nothing really motivates them,” Jack said. “But this system helps. Drones are provided through this program and ladies are rewarded. This is a good motivation.”

But others are less convinced.

“The basic motivation issue is not solved by this, dedi he said only a soldier who wants his call to be defined by Snake.

“He won’t stop the people whose points escape from the army.”

A soldier who described himself as a Dymytro sent a long response that units complained that units complained that the units would attack a previously disabled Russian vehicle to earn more points while trying to demand each other’s hit.

For Dymytro, the whole concept seemed morally suspicious.

“This system is only the result of our twisted mental habit to make everything a profit.”

However, the e-Nokta scheme is typical about how Ukraine struggles: creative, out-of-box thinking designed to make the most of the country’s innovative skills and minimize the impact of the numerical disadvantage.

Fedorov says 90-95% of the fighting units participated and provides continuous useful data flow.

“We started to get quality information and make decisions based on it, or he says.

“We can recommend changes by collecting data, but the basic is always a military strategy.”

In an anonymous office block in KYIV, we met some analysts who were to pour the job on shooting, to confirm the prize scores to every responsible unit.

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

“We have two categories: hit and destroyed,” Volodia said. He continued: “So in a different amount of e-nokta goes to different categories.”

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

“If you kill Russian,” Volodia said, “If you catch it, you will hit it with 10.”

Volodia’s team analyzes thousands of hits every day.

Topçu The most difficult part of the Topçu, dedi he said, showing us the video of a drone that skillfully wandering through trees and a ditch hidden.

“The Russians are very good in hiding and digging.”

As Russia’s tactics developed, the e-Nokta system developed.

Increased Moscow’s small, probation units pedestrian or equestrian motorcycles means that the value of a single soldier increases compared to a tank or other armored vehicle.

“The killing of an enemy soldier earlier earned 2 points, while” Brave 1 statement “is now winning 6.”

And enemy drone operators are always more valuable than drones.

The reward system is also refined.

So far, units have been able to transform their scores to cash to buy extra equipment that many of them have used with crowded resources and needed bad equipment.

Now the E-NOKTA system is directly integrated into something called the Brave 1 Market, which designers describe as “Amazon for war”.

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

The Brave 1 market is designed to be replaced by traditional, cumbersome military supply. Hope is that units can access the unmanned land vehicles (UGVs) that can evacuate wounded soldiers from dangerous facade positions from drones and drones.

Killing points. Amazon for war. For some ears, they can all seem brutal, even emotionless.

But this war and ukraine are determined to hold. By fighting effectively and efficiently.