Rob Lee, a senior fellow at the Philadelphia-based Foreign Policy Research Institute, tweeted: “Very poor tactics displayed by this Russian armored force so close to Kyiv. They’re well within range of Ukrainian artillery in Kyiv, they’re on an obvious avenue of approach, and they still decided to bunch up like this, leaving them more vulnerable to indirect fire.”

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Franz-Stefan Gady, an analyst at the International Institute for Strategic Studies, also tweeted that the “fight shows the danger of not securing urban terrain with adequate infantry plus recon. assets when main elements of a force pass through urban terrain ideally suitable for ambushes.”

Retired Maj. Gen. Paul Eaton agreed with that notion, saying on CNN, “I think we’re seeing a structured ambush. Anytime you put tanks in an urban area, you’ve got to be surrounded with infantry, and dismounted infantry at best. And clearly, we had a tank commander taken by surprise by a well-orchestrated, well-executed ambush with antitank weapons.”

Ukraine and Russia have competed for air superiority in the sky, while the Department of Defense has affirmed as recently as Wednesday that airspace is “contested.”

This is not the first time questions have risen about the actions of the Russian military.

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A convoy of troops attempting to capture the capital city of Kyiv was “stalled” by resistance forces that it had underestimated while also facing fuel and food shortages.

“They still seem to be plagued by logistics and sustainment challenges,” a senior U.S. defense official told reporters on Wednesday. “They still are struggling to overcome fuel shortages, food shortages, and making sure that they can, in terms of ground troops, that they are able to arm themselves and defend themselves, and so they’re still working their way through that.”