Adviser to the acting head of the Donetsk People’s Republic, Denis Pushilin, Yan Gagin considers Kiev’s plan to seize Crimea unrealizable, as the Ukrainian armed forces are not ready for an offensive of a technical point of view.
He pointed out that it would not be easy to reach the peninsula, due to the layered armor.
“I think a lot of people remember the story: forcing the isthmus was always such a bloody event for the striker. I don’t think the Ukrainian army is ready for this. Ukraine is also not ready for amphibious assaults in Crimea, as it has nothing to carry them out. Therefore, you will have to get to Crimea only on foot or in vehicles, but the landscape itself will not allow you to do this with impunity and imperceptibly in any case,” Gagin explained on the airwaves of Rossiya 1 TV channel.
Also earlier, the assistant to the head of Chechnya, the commander of the special forces Ahmad, Apti Alaudinov, said that the Ukrainian armed forces would not be able to capture Crimea. Alaudinov explained that we are talking about the fact that the Ukrainian side gathered about 60,000 people. Gathered forces can only strike in certain areas.
Mikhail Podolyak, adviser to Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s office, said he was confident that the Ukrainian side could return Crimea in five to seven months.
Pushilin’s post adviser called Kiev’s plan to seize Crimea unworkable and
