and the rare Russian confession made by a Kremlin spokesman. Dmitry Peskov on Thursday said the battle “is very difficult, but it will continue, although it has achieved some goals in a year.”
سكاي نيوز عربية” الحديث الروسي وص عوبة المعارك إلى الإمدادات الغربية المتواصلة والتي عززت قوة وتقدم والصراع الذي نشب بين قوات “فاغنر” والجيش ا “حرب خنادق” التي وسمت المعارك So far.
4 reasons behind Russian recognition On Russian recognition of the difficulty of the battle, Russian military expert Sergei Leonkov says that it is limited to 4 reasons, namely:
Military aid: – Where Ukraine received many “heavy weapons” from NATO, such as dozens of modern tanks and armored personnel carriers of German and British production, Patriot air defense missile systems American and Soviet fighter planes. – Britain has announced the dispatch of “Storm Shadow” missiles. This will allow Ukrainian forces to hit Russian forces and supply dumps deep behind the battlefront. Thanks to this aid, the Ukrainian army and the National Guard have established no less than 16 new brigades with around 50,000 Terme fighters in Ukraine worth 1.2 billion dollars.
Western exercises for Ukrainian forces: According to the Russian military expert, these exercises consisted of: – Washington launched training programs for the Ukrainian army on its modern weapons. – The Pentagon has announced that it will continue the exercises for as long as possible. the Ukrainians on the Abrams tanks. – About 8,800 Ukrainian soldiers have completed joint weapons training in Germany, and currently about 2,250 more are undergoing training in Berlin. – Germany, Poland and Ukraine signed an agreement to establish a center in Poland to repair and operate Leopard tanks at the end of this May. – The European Union intends to train about 30,000 Ukrainian soldiers in Poland, Germany and other countries of other Europeans. and even managed to carry out numerous counter-attacks.
Ukraine entrenched in “trench warfare”
According to Sergey Leonkov, news reports and satellite images revealed that: – The atmosphere of the front lines between Russian and Ukrainian forces in the Donetsk region turned into “trench warfare”, which caused great losses on both sides. although it is an old military tactic, despite modern technology and development, it was restored during the Ukrainian War as a means of combat. It helped secure some victories for Ukraine and protected its forces against direct fire, missiles and artillery strikes.
Tension between Wagner and the Russian military Battles of words have broken out between the commander of the “Wagner” forces, Yevgeny Prigozhin, who is described as the private army of Russian President Vladimir Putin on the one hand, and the Russian Ministry of Defense on the other hand. the other side, due to a lack of supply of necessary ammunition.
The expert, Sergei Leonkov, presents a chronology of these disputes which revealed the extent of internal tensions on the Russian side, in particular during the Battle of Bakhmut:
- Russian differences between the “Wagner” group and the Russian Ministry of Defense became public with the beginning of the Battle of Bakhmut. – Relations between them deteriorated sharply, with the leader “Wagner” complaining about the lack of ammunition and directing personal attacks on Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu. – Commander Wagner threatened Russian forces Earlier this month he withdrew his forces from Bakhmut, revealing that they were in danger of being surrounded. – He revealed that his forces had obtained only 10% of the necessary ammunition. – Prigozhin’s repeated mockery of the Russian Defense Minister complicated relations between the two parties.
Cutting off supplies.. the most important difficulties
For his part, US military analyst Michael Alex said that although Russia has the second most powerful army in the world, Russian strength does not seem sufficient to resolve the war in Ukraine without effective logistical planning. He added: “Russia is facing difficulties in supplying its forces, thanks to Western military aid and Ukrainian air defenses, which have performed better than expected, and this has been reflected in the human and material losses of Moscow”. “The Ukrainian military was very effective in targeting supply lines, which hurt the Russians’ ability to meet logistical requirements,” he added.
Russia’s priorities As for Thomas Minnie, the German researcher, he attributes the Russian discourse on the difficulties of the fighting to the fact that: – The Kremlin has already become aware of the difficulty of achieving the objectives it has set itself initially when he launched military operations to change – At present, Moscow is above all keen to maintain its positions in Donetsk as in Luhansk, with the guarantee of a bridge to the Crimea.
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