The article outlines the research into how effective dazzle paint was in disguising ships from u-boats as they question the new dazzle paint jobs on Ukrainian ships. I doubt the Ukrainians are trying to fool Russian sailors so much as drones using machine learning algorithms
In the immortal words of Robin Williams: "If you're going to fight, CLASH!"
Camouflage is about clashing on your terms. This seems particularly so in the case of troop ships.