Invited to BFMTV this Monday, General of the Army Olivier Kempf believes that the Russian president will not be able to extend his war in Ukraine to the rest of Europe.
“Russia will not stop.” For several days Kyiv has been warning Europeans that if Ukraine falls, Vladimir Putin will continue his breakthrough to the West. But more than two weeks into the war, Army General and Strategic Research Foundation researcher Olivier Kempf “doesn’t think” Putin could go beyond Ukraine.
“We see all the difficulties he has to progress in Ukraine,” he said on BFMTV on Monday.
“This is already a large piece that will be difficult for him to swallow and probably difficult to digest,” even Olivier Kempf makes a reservation. because the beginning of the invasion, adopted by Vladimir Putin, did not go as he had hoped and that the conflict is now choking.
“His army can’t do everything and certainly can’t go out and challenge the countries of the Atlantic Alliance.”
“Russians don’t have much risk of making a mistake”
However, Moscow decided on the night from Saturday to Sunday to strike at the Yavoriv military base, located just 20 kilometers from the Polish border. What is the risk of “missing”?
“The missiles are still accurate, firing within a radius of 10 to 50 meters. The Russians didn’t have much risk of making a mistake” and sending a rocket to Poland, tempers Olivier Kempf
“This enters into a fairly clear dialectic between Russia and the West about the possible involvement of Western countries in the conflict in Ukraine,” he explains.
Western arms shipments are ‘legitimate military targets’ for Moscow
The general of the army suggests that this base could be used as a training base for international volunteers or as a warehouse for military equipment.
“From the very beginning of the conflict, Westerners have been saying, ‘We are not going to war, but we will help Ukraine indirectly’, for example, by supplying it with weapons or allowing a certain number of volunteers to join the conflict,” says Olivier Kempf.
On Saturday, however, Russia issued a clear warning. Russia’s deputy foreign minister said Western arms supplies to Ukraine could be considered “legitimate military targets.”