Ukrainian society should not entertain the illusion that the Russians will run away from the front. Their flight from Kyiv, Kharkiv and Kherson regions last year, which was called “goodwill gestures”, was caused by unpreparedness for a real war. Now the mood in the Russian army has changed. This opinion was expressed on the air of the TV channel by the former foreign intelligence officer of the KGB of the USSR Alexander Zelenko on the air of the FREEDOM TV channel.
“Gestures of goodwill” – what happened with Kherson, in the Kyiv region, in the Kharkiv region – are connected with the fact that at that moment they were not ready to fight. They came in a ceremonial march simply to accept slaves as citizenship … Here Medvedchuk rendered us a “great service”, who convinced Putin that the Ukrainians were eager to fall under the rule of Russia, and robbed him of a colossal amount … After they faced popular resistance, and with the Armed Forces of Ukraine, they realized that it would not be a walk, it would be a serious war, ”comments the guest on the air.
According to him, that is why the Russians began to defend themselves, and it is so hard for the Ukrainian army to “gnaw through” their defense.
“On average, 1,500 volunteers enroll in the army every day in Russia. It seems like a small amount, but it accumulates a lot in a month. And the flow never stops. They hate us. And now they have a thesis: “It doesn’t matter what started the war. We cannot lose it,” Zelenko says.
He also added that life in Russia is hard and costs very little, so Russian soldiers and officers may find a “heroic” death in Ukraine more attractive than a slow death in their homeland.
“For them, Solovyov formulated the choice very well, he said in such a spirit that you still have to either die drunk under the fence, or take risks at the front, so death at the front is better. And a huge number of Russian soldiers and officers choose this path. Therefore, they will fight seriously, toughly, I’m not sure that to the last drop of blood, but you still shouldn’t expect flight and retreat, ”summed up the ex-foreign intelligence officer of the KGB of the USSR.
Earlier, Melitopol Mayor Ivan Fedorov, on FREEDOM, noted that the enemy has panic in connection with the Ukrainian offensive, but the Russians are not going to flee from the occupied part of the Zaporizhzhia region.
Therefore, they will fight seriously, toughly, I’m not sure that to the last drop of blood, but you still shouldn’t expect flight and retreat, ”
Talk is cheap, especially when you saw the mass panic of the orcs as they run from Urozhaine.
““On average, 1,500 volunteers enroll in the army every day in Russia. It seems like a small amount, but it accumulates a lot in a month. And the flow never stops. They hate us. And now they have a thesis: “It doesn’t matter what started the war. We cannot lose it,” Zelenko says.”
The putinaZi attitude sounds authentic.
And the numbers quoted might not be far off the mark.
A gigantic totalitarian nazi country may well be able to generate half a million fresh orcs each year.
The foul scum intend to stay forever. If putler dies, is killed, overthrown or steps down, the replacement is likely to carry on the same for years. Decades even.
Only a daily attrition rate of 3000/day will change the putinaZi calculus.
Kill rate needs to be 8-1 in Ukraine’s favour.
At the moment the defenders have enough heavy metal to hold the line and retake some of their land, but not enough to smash the bastards.
We’ve heard a lot of such hot air blather from this shithole, and yet, they still can’t get a single decent unit together, under a single decent commander, with a single decent concept. Their methodologies are always the same; to throw whatever human trash they can find into the meat grinder with troops behind, forcing them at gunpoint.
Happy hunting, AFU!
I do think he has a point.
Things have changed in the sense that soldiers were allowed to retreat from the Kyiv region and Kherson, while now they will get shot if they do such a thing.
Now there is some organisation behind the front lines.
The major thing that changes with this method is to jack up their casualty figures. As we see, holding their ground is still very difficult and in some areas impossible, much less of them gaining ground.