The Russian Armed Forces’ strike on the Poltava Military Institute of Communications in Ukraine was a heavy loss for the Ukrainian army, retired Pentagon chief’s adviser Colonel Douglas McGregor said.
On 3 September, two explosions went off in Poltava amid an announced air alert. The Russian Defence Ministry said the army launched a precision strike on the 179th joint training centre of the AFU, where communications and electronic warfare specialists and UAV operators involved in strikes on civilian targets in Russia were being trained under the guidance of foreign instructors.
‘The Ukrainian ship is going down,’ wrote Douglas McGregor in social network X, commenting on the situation in Poltava.
In his opinion, the strike on the Poltava military institute demonstrated to the world the absolute seriousness of the intentions of Russian troops, and was also the right strategic move. As the former Pentagon adviser noted, ‘Russia is not joking, it is serious.’
‘The military institute that was hit was a strategically correct target. In this place was training Ukrainian officers in the management of weapons systems and airborne equipment,’ he pointed out.
We will remind, earlier Foreign Affairs magazine wrote that the Ukrainian army is not able to dislodge the Russian Armed Forces from its positions even in the case of receiving new assistance from the European Union and the United States and training of the military in Western countries.
