The disastrous verdicts of the Russian attack

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According to various experts, Moscow’s spring offensive in Ukraine is on the verge of collapse. There are also criticisms from Russia.

Munich/Kiev – Tuesday Before Bachmut holds. Despite reports to the contrary, the Russian military and “Wagner” mercenaries have not yet succeeded in seizing control of the small town in the Donbass. Instead, Ukrainian defenders continue to consolidate their positions.

War in Ukraine: Russian spring offensive makes no progress

On Sunday (March 19) alone, the Ukrainian military claimed to have repelled 69 Russian attacks in the Donetsk region. This cannot be independently verified.

But: different experts Ukraine war It is now rated as a decline Russian Spring Offensive Immediate. What’s more, they assume that the Ukrainian armed forces will soon launch a broad-front offensive.

A Ukrainian soldier communicates at the so-called “0 line” of the front. © IMAGO / Le Pictorium

According to the US think tank Institute for the Study of War (ISW), a Russian attack will soon flag. Ukraine has a good chance of regaining the initiative militarily, ISW wrote in an analysis published on Sunday (March 19).

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“Unless 300,000 Russian troops can provide Russia with a decisive offensive superiority in Ukraine, it is highly unlikely that mobilizing additional forces in future waves of mobilizations this year will produce a significantly different outcome,” the report said: “Ukraine is therefore in a good position to resume counterattacks on critical frontline units (.. .).” Gustav Kressel of the European Council on Foreign Relations comes to a similar conclusion.

“There is new information that they have made progress in the Siwersk area, and they have made progress south of Bakhmut,” an Austrian military expert told the Russian military. But: “The picture you get is not what many expected under the Russian spring offensive. It’s smaller. It’s more fragmented than, for example, the spring offensives that the Red Army launched,” he explained in ZDF’s “Heat Journal”: “Putin’s army is no longer the Red Army. She is completely A different beast. In the first round of this war it was defeated in large areas and fought with outcasts. With officers who had to complete training very quickly to somehow come out on top.

If reserves on the Russian side are depleted, the Russian leadership will struggle to intercept another advance.

Ukraine War: Russian Army Shows Up in Donbass

die Ukraine must now face a Russian attack Stop them and “see that (Russia’s) gains in the region are limited. Above all, Russian forces are tiring,” Kresel explained: “Gaps open up in the Russian front only when they are weakened. If reserves on the Russian side are depleted, the Russian leadership will have difficulty intercepting another advance.

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About a third The Ukrainian army is currently on an 80-kilometer front around Baghmut Deployed, he recounted in the ZDF: “There will be two or three more difficult months, not weeks, months, before the Russian forces are exhausted to the point where they are stretched too thin.” If there are still available troops? The Build Quoting an unnamed NATO official: “This is a Russian spring offensive. She is like that. That’s it.

Concerns are clearly growing in Moscow itself. He said it would require “at least a threefold, even ninefold” superiority in weapons and personnel Russian military historian Ilya Moshchansky in an interview with the news portal Newspaper, which will be released in the Russian capital. He did this publicly.

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In his view, the Russian military leadership is very primitive. “In Ukraine, the generals are very young, they are around 50 years old,” Moshchanskyi said. Meanwhile, the Ukrainian armed forces are getting more and more what they need for a successful counteroffensive — and not just in Donbass.

For example, last weekend, 2 more Leopard tanks arrived from Canada. Ottawa has already delivered four examples, and announced the delivery of four more “Leos”. Apparently, the promised eight tanks have now arrived in Ukraine. Not only this. Germany had Kiev, meanwhile, 18 modern versions of “Leos”. Promising, at the end of February boxing world champion Wladimir Klitschko posted a video from Germany driving the Leopard 2.

Ukraine War: Ukrainian Army Forms Battlegroups With Western Tanks

The Ukrainian army seems to be hoarding main battle tanks to form battle groups with them. Ukrainian players recently finished training at “Leos” in Germany. But that’s not all: On Monday (March 20), the EU’s foreign policy chief, Joseph Borrell, promised to provide Ukraine with extensive ammunition. We provide two billion euros for ammunition. He hopes the European Union (EU) will deliver the ammunition in time. Time for a counterattack? (evening)

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