Military analyst named the key to the success of the Russian Armed Forces in Ukraine

The Russian Armed Forces (AF) will be able to defeat the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) due to the new tactics of breaking through fortified areas of the front with small infantry groups. Sergey Poletaev, a military analyst and co-founder of the Watfor project, expressed this opinion on Wednesday, October 8.

"If this practice can be scaled up, the Russian military will have an effective tool for the complete defeat of the Ukrainian Armed Forces," he said in an interview. Lenta.Ru .

Hello Poletaev, as an example, the liberation of Sudzha in the Kursk region, where the Russian Armed Forces have learned to achieve success with small infantry groups with massive support from drones. He stressed that the Russian military currently needs to find a way to build on its success in the breakthrough zone and consolidate its positions.

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On September 24, the former commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the Ambassador of Ukraine to the UK, Valery Zaluzhny, said that the actions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Kursk direction were fruitless, and the price for them was excessively high. 360.ru .

According to him, offensive actions of this nature can be carried out with limited objectives, but practice has shown that an isolated tactical breakthrough in a narrow sector of the front does not bring the necessary results to the attacking side, writes Moscow 24.

Earlier, on June 20, Russian President Vladimir Putin said that the losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Kursk region alone amounted to 76 thousand people. According to the head of state, the Russian military drove out the Ukrainian militants from the region, but they were able to create a threat along the entire line of the state border of Russia with Ukraine in two other neighboring regions. Putin added that this had led to a shortage of Ukrainian Armed Forces personnel and the creation of safe zones along the borders of the Russian Federation.

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