The Russian military is not one to officially confirm that it is reorganizing.
The ministry spokesperson therefore did not say a word about the ouster of Admiral Nikolai Yevmenov, commander of the Black Sea Fleet.
But the Minister of Defense, Sergei Shoigu, clearly suggested last weekend that changes were necessary to strengthen a navy seriously undermined by its adversary.
“
It is necessary to conduct training with personnel every day”
to “
repel
air attacks and those carried out by
marine
drones ,” he declared, as the order is given to adapt to the threat.
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For two years, the Russian army has also learned lessons from the war in Ukraine.
She gradually sought to correct the errors made in the conduct of her “special operation”.
This effort also explains the failure of the Ukrainian counter-offensive last year.
“A learning army is stronger
,” observes a French military source…
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