Ukraine launches new points for killing Russians scheme

The pictures come every day. Thousands of them.

Men and equipment that are caught along the long and disputed front lines in Ukraine. Everything was photographed, recorded and calculated.

Now it has been used, as the Ukrainian army tries to extract every feature that can against its most powerful opponent.

Under a scheme tried for the first time in the past year and called “Done Army Army: Bonuance” (also known as “electronic points”), units can gain points for every Russian soldier killed or the equipment has been destroyed.

Like Killstreak in Call of Duty, or showing a TV game in the 1970s, points mean prizes.

“The more important the most important goal in strategic and large terms, the more points the unit receives,” says a statement from the team in Brave 1, which brings together experts from the government and the army.

“For example, the destruction of the multiple missile launch system gets up to 50 points; 40 points are given to a devastating tank and 20 points for damage.”

We call it Gamification from the war.

Each video that has been carefully downloaded is now analyzed in KyIV, where points are granted according to a continuously advanced group of military priorities.

“I think, first and foremost, it relates to quality data, war mathematics, and understanding how to use limited resources more effectively,” says the man behind the electronic points scheme, Mykhailo Fedorov, the Minister of Digital Transformation in Ukraine.

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

“It is also about motives,” says Fedorov. “When we change the values of the point, we can see how the motivation changes.”

The Fedorov office features a huge video screen with dozens of live extracts of Ukrainian drones that fly over the front lines.

The extracts together provide a live glimpse into the drone war in Ukraine, which leaders claim that robots that now fly an estimated 70 % of all Russian deaths and injuries.

From the early days of the full invasion of Russia, social media extracts were full of drones, and they are usually seized on the soundtrack of heavy metal music.

Tank Tower, explodes in a ball of flame. A single soldier, lifting a drone attacking with a gun or stick.

It can make watching hideous. Each video celebrates the death of the opponent. The video that is running mysterious with the drone explosion.

But besides a feeling of dark satisfaction, the hard compressed front font units are now knowing that the evidence of their exploits can bring them bonuses.

The BBC has reached more than ten units to find out what the headlines of the scheme’s front lines make. The responses were mixed.

“In general, my companions and I are positive,” said Volodimir, a 108th regional defense brigade, and my companions are positive. ” We asked not to use his title.

While the front lines units are burning through equipment, especially drones, at a fierce rate, Volodymyr says that the electronic points scheme proves to be useful.

“This is a way to compensate for what we lose … with losses to the enemy as effectively as possible.”

The twenty -second mechanical brigade, who is currently fighting in the northeast of the country, had about three months to get used to the new system.

“As soon as we discovered how it works, it turned out to be a very decent system,” said a soldier from 22 Jacques Al -Dal.

Jack said: “Boys have worn out, and nothing really motivates them,” Jack said. “But this system helps. Done -aircraft are provided through this program, and the boys are rewarded. It is a decent motivation.”

But others are less convinced.

“This basic issue of motivation is not resolved.”

“The points will not prevent people from escaping from the army.”

The soldier who knew himself as Dymytro sent us a lengthy response as he complained that the units are spending a lot of time trying to demand each other’s visits or attack a Russian vehicle that has already been disabled, in order to earn more points.

For Dymytro, the entire concept seemed morally doubtful.

“This system is just a result of our twisted mental habit to turn everything into profit,” Dimitro complained, “until our cursed death.”

But the electronic points scheme is typical of the way Ukraine fought this war: creative thinking, outside the box designed to achieve the utmost benefit from innovative skills in the country and reduce the impact of its numerical defects.

Fedorov says 90-95 % of the combat units are now involved, providing a fixed flow of useful data.

“We have started receiving high -quality information and making decisions based on it,” he says.

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

In an unknown office building in Kiev, we met some analysts whose mission is to pour the shots, check all the beating points and prize to the responsible unit.

We were asked not to disclose the site or use real names.

Voludia told us: “We have two categories: we hit and destroyed.” “Therefore, a different amount of electronic points goes to different groups.”

It turned out that encouraging the Russian soldier to surrender deserves more points than one killing – the prisoner of war can always be used in future deals to exchange prisoners.

“If Russia kills one, it will receive one point, if you arrest it, then you multiply it by 10.”

Volodia team analyzes thousands of visits every day.

He said: “The most difficult part is artillery,” shows us a video of a drone that moves with experience through the trees and in a trench where the gun is hidden.

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

With the development of Russia’s tactics, as well as the electronic points system.

Increasing Moscow’s use of small units that are achieved, on foot or motorcycle riding, means that the value of the individual soldier has increased, relative to a tank or another armored vehicle.

“While a soldier had previously killed a two -point enemy,” the brave statement 1 read, “Now earns 6.”

The drones enemy operators are always more valuable than drones.

The reward system is also improved.

To date, the units have managed to convert their points into money, which many used, along with the sources of crowd, to buy additional equipment that is strongly required.

The electronic points system is now merged 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 elements directly from manufacturers and leave reviews, with the Ministry of Defense picked up after that.

The Brave 1 market is designed to sit along with the exhausting traditional traditional military purchases, instead of replacing it. Hope is that the units have the fastest access to the favorite elements, from drones to unmanned ingredients and compounds (UGVs) that can evacuate the wounded soldiers from the dangerous front lines sites.

Points to kill. Amazon for war. For some ears, everything may look brutally, even harsh.

But this is the war and Ukraine is determined to adhere to it. By fighting effectively, efficiently as possible.