Russia is using devastating 'meat assault' attacks to find out where Ukraine's firepower is hidden: report

• Russia is using waves of troops in head-on "meat assault" attacks, the BBC said. 
• Russia's using them to identify Ukrainian firepower positions, an officer told the outlet.
• Around 1,000 Russian troops a day are being killed or injured, reports say. 

Russia is using head-on attacks by waves of troops to identify Ukrainian firepower positions, a Ukrainian officer told BBC News.

In a report on Russia's brutal front-line tactics near Kharkiv in Ukraine, troops described the waves of Russian attacks on their positions, describing them as "meat assaults."