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After Ukraine retaliation: Military experts pass devastating verdict on Putin's attacking army

2022-09-14T05:03:15.987Z


After Ukraine retaliation: Military experts pass devastating verdict on Putin's attacking army Created: 09/14/2022, 06:51 By: Patrick Mayer Ukrainian troops celebrate the recapture of areas in Kharkiv Oblast in a photo provided by the General Staff of Kyiv. © IMAGO / Cover Images The Russian army is retreating from the Kharkiv region in a hurry, and the Ukrainian military is reporting further


After Ukraine retaliation: Military experts pass devastating verdict on Putin's attacking army

Created: 09/14/2022, 06:51

By: Patrick Mayer

Ukrainian troops celebrate the recapture of areas in Kharkiv Oblast in a photo provided by the General Staff of Kyiv.

© IMAGO / Cover Images

The Russian army is retreating from the Kharkiv region in a hurry, and the Ukrainian military is reporting further territorial gains.

Military experts ruthlessly analyze the shortcomings in Vladimir Putin's troops.

Munich/Charkiw/Kyiv - Huge setbacks for Russia in the Ukraine war: Since September 8th and 9th, the Ukrainian army has recaptured large areas around the metropolis of Kharkiv (around 1.4 million inhabitants) with a counter-offensive.

Ukraine War: Russian troops withdraw from Kharkiv region

The Russian General Staff admitted that it had withdrawn its troops from the strategically important city of Izium on the banks of the Seversky Donets.

There was talk of a regrouping, Ukraine and Western observers speak of a hasty and chaotic retreat.

Photos and videos from the Ukrainian side, for example, show Russian military equipment allegedly left in a hurry and alleged ammunition from the invading army, which has now fallen into the hands of the defenders.

According to President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the Ukrainian armed forces have been able to retake more than 6,000 square kilometers from the Russian occupiers since the beginning of September.

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That's not all: According to Ukrainian information on Tuesday (September 13), Russia's troops are also withdrawing from the first towns in the neighboring Luhansk Oblast.

This region fell to the Russians and the separatists only months ago after heavy fighting for Sieverodonetsk and Lysychansk.

"Today Kreminna is completely empty," said the Ukrainian military governor of Luhansk, Serhiy Hajdaj, about the small town in the Donbass.

Ukraine war: Russian army apparently also with setbacks in Luhansk region

Russian military bloggers reported on Monday that Ukraine had recaptured the town of Bilohorivka.

In the West and Germany, one question in particular has been discussed with regard to the war since the beginning of the week: Is this the turning point in favor of the attacked?

To the detriment of Moscow ruler and warmonger Vladimir Putin?

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Gustav Gressel, Senior Policy Fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR), believes - yes.

The much-quoted military expert said on Monday (September 12) on the program "ZDF Spezial": "According to the current situation, that looks very much like the turning point.

The Russians have lost very strong forces.” Gressel also justifies his assessment with an alleged further impending defeat of the Russian troops - this time in southern Ukraine.

"There is a second pocket in Cherson, which could also collapse in a few days due to a lack of ammunition, or these troops could capitulate," explained the Austrian and said: "Then we have a significant weakening of the Russian army in terms of manpower."

Turning point in the Ukraine war?

Military experts weaknesses of Russian troops

In addition, there would be a psychological effect, he believes and argues: "The recruitment phase should now actually be running for the next rotation period (

of the Russian army, ed

.).

And in this wave of recruitment comes the news of the defeat, which can no longer be hidden in Russia either.

Accordingly, the volunteers who volunteer for a war that is apparently lost will be more reluctant.” In his view, the Russians were surprised by the offensive because it came near Kharkiv.

And not at Cherson, as President Zelenskyy and other experts announced for weeks.

“That tied up your operational resources in the wrong place at the wrong time,” said Gressel on ZDF: “Chaos broke out.

The Ukrainians skillfully exploited this chaos.”

Then chaos broke out.

The Ukrainians skillfully exploited this chaos.

Military expert Gustav Gressel on ZDF

Former NATO general Egon Ramms is more cautious: "I'm not ready to speak of a turning point.

Simply for the reason that I say that there are still too many Russian soldiers in Ukraine.

And Putin still has the opportunity to add new forces," said General a.

D. of the army of the Bundeswehr on Sunday (September 11) the "heute journal" of the ZDF.

The recent military successes are "extremely important for the morale of the Ukrainian soldiers and the Ukrainian population," the 73-year-old explained, and demanded from the Western governments "that weapons must continue to be supplied, weapons of all kinds, so that the Ukrainian armed forces can extend this success further".

German military expert: "Russian soldiers were surprised by the Ukrainian attack"

Ramms also made a devastating judgment about the Russian troops: "I guess that the soldiers were surprised by the Ukrainian attack and they were obviously not aware that such a situation had to be avoided with their weapons and equipment.

And you obviously ran away.

That means that the leadership was lacking, as well as the fighting power, the will and the morale of the Russian soldiers.”

With Franz-Stefan Gady, however, another military expert supports the thesis of the turning point.

On Tuesday, he tweeted estimated frontline trajectories, commenting: "If these troop dispositions and axes of advance are anywhere near correct, Russia's position in the northern Lugansk region does indeed face a serious military threat."

“We have most likely entered a new phase of the war with the resounding success of the Ukrainian armed forces.

The Russian front in the Kharkiv region has collapsed," the political advisor and analyst at the Institute for International Strategic Studies (IISS) in London had said the day before on ARD's "Focal Point": "The Ukrainians have pushed deep into space there.

At the moment it doesn't look like the Russian forces can regroup.

There are no operational reserves capable of counterattacking.

At the moment, the reins of action are clearly on the side of Ukraine.”

(pm)

Source: merkur

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