Members of a Ukrainian Special Operations Team have released a mixtape of combat footage showcasing several harassing operations against Russian forces. All of the operations in this video were carried out along the Dnipro river in the Kherson region of Ukraine.

Harassing operations like these are usually conducted to keep the enemy guessing. You generally carry these out when you're preparing a larger attack or raid into enemy territory. The purpose is to prod your enemy in specific areas so that he'll divert resources and attention towards the harassment units, hopefully leaving an opening for a larger raid force or assault group to conduct a more large-scale maneuver.

You'll notice that I used the word usually at the beginning of that last paragraph. These attacks are also done to keep your enemy's morale low, because it lets him know that it doesn't matter where he is on the front-line, someone can take him out at any point in time. By doing this at all times, it also makes it so the enemy combatant commander will struggle to make decisions. Conducting these attacks is a surefire way to get inside of your enemy's OODA-Loop, hopefully causing him to make a blunder that you can capitalize on at an opportune time.

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