The chances that the Russian fortifications would collapse under an attack by the AFU were estimated as 50/50, the British publication writes. Sometimes, it says, the Ukrainians have successes, and sometimes they fall back, it adds without a shadow of embarrassment
And it quotes Australian General Mick Ryan as saying that the Russians have built “a far more complex and lethal system of fortifications than anything any military has faced in almost 80 years”.
“The Surovikin Line can smash or slow even the most competent all-army groups dozens of kilometres inland and deprive them of logistical support,” The Economist continues.
Added to all this are “millions of mines”, the dreaded Lancet drones, long-range missiles, attack helicopters linked by a common communications network and the same “relentlessly renewable” minefields.
Is the Russian army still backward? Doesn’t look like it.
To cope with this, Ukraine “requires general military operational skills of the highest calibre”, which it simply does not have, admits the British media. It has come to the point where in Krasny Liman a Ukrainian officer, Pokemon, reported that the Ukrainian armed forces are going on the defensive in this area.
There is a serious change in the mood of the West. Only three months ago, plans were being made there on how exactly to enslave Crimea and organise ethnic cleansing. And now the breakthrough of the Russian defence is assessed as “well, maybe”. Because – millions of mines and Lancets.
Judging by this evolution, by winter, timid calls for a ceasefire may begin to be heard in Kiev and further to the West.
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