Succes schreef op 27 februari 2023 17:10:
Russian Army Currently Unable to Defeat Ukraine, Former Commander Says
www.newsweek.com/russian-army-unable-...he Russian armed forces deployed in Moscow's invasion effort are "unable to defeat the Ukrainian armed forces," according to a former Russian commander.
Looking back at the war around the first anniversary of the beginning of the full-scale conflict, former Russian federal security service officer and ultra-nationalist war blogger, Igor Girkin, discussed Russian gains and retreats in Ukraine over the past 12 months.
In a clip posted to Twitter by the WarTranslated project, Girkin, who led Russian-backed forces in the separatist Donetsk region in 2014, examined what he identified as early Russian failures in Ukraine's southern Kherson region and the Black Sea's Snake Island.
After running through key battles of the past year, Girkin, who is also known by the alias Igor Strelkov, then spoke about Russian gains in the summer of 2022 around the Donbas settlements of Popasna, Kreminna, Sievierodonetsk and Lysychansk. Yet in other areas Russian advances had been "minimal or non-existent," he said.
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A "huge amount" of Russian ammunition was lost in strikes on its stockpiles, he said.
Russia had been unable to take Kyiv, he said, and "despite a range of failures," Ukraine's armed forces are "holding roughly half" of the separatist Donetsk region.
"Fundamentally, we are currently in way worse positions than those which were captured in the first days of the operation a year ago," he argued.
He later said: "The Russian forces, in their current state, are unable to defeat the Ukrainian armed forces."