More than two months after the start of the war in Ukrainethat Russia increases its push to the east in the Kharkiv region and slows the advance Donbass. In Kharkiv, the Ukrainian army announces a number of “tactical” victories, including the liberation of a nearby village, while not hesitating to describe the situation at the steel mill as “worse than a humanitarian catastrophe”. In a picture of the apparent stalemate, but where Russian casualties are significant, Wladimir Putin it could abandon the notion of “special operations” in favor of waging a real “total war” in Kyiv. But that wouldn’t be enough. A former British officer predicted that the Ukrainians could stop the attack on the Kremlin and that this would have far-reaching consequences for the tsar and his regime.
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Mike Martin, a British researcher at King’s College London, said: “British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss said Britain’s strategic objective is to drive Russian forces out of Ukraine, including Crimea, and thus return to the borders before 2014. It would have taken ten years, but he is wrong: the Russian armed forces will collapse sooner and we will see a coup d’etat ».
Martin then claimed that the Russians missed their chance to win the Battle of Donbass by not properly increasing their forces and using outdated tactics, some of which date back to World War II. “The Russians really had the opportunity to reinforce their units on the territory, also build up a reserve and then try to carry out some specific maneuvers to encircle the Ukrainians in the east. The decision to wage a war of attrition was wrong. And it will be deadly ».
by Alessandro Strabioli