Extra spicy context: The Ukrainians on the eastern front have figured out that it’s hugely important to the Russians to be able to plant Russian flags to show that they are taking territory and making progress. And so, the UA army has made a hobby of planting Ukrainian flags in inconvenient places with drones (in the middle of a huge open field with no cover, up on top of a water tower), and then inevitably comes a Russian operation to remove the flag even though it’s the world’s most obvious ambush (because removing the flag is a CRITICAL priority and the Russian commanders care more about the flags than the lives of their men.) And so, the Ukrainians get to do an ambush.
It’s working so well in the place that they invented it that the game of Water Tower Drone Flag is spreading to other areas and apparently working well there, too.