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The army of the Russian Federation has resources for 2 weeks of active fights - Arestovych

17 March, 2022 Thursday
16:48

Russian troops will be capable of active combat operations within the next 10-14 days

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This was stated by Advisor to the Head of the Office of the President Oleksiy Arestovych in an interview with Radio Svoboda.

According to him, out of about 200,000 military personnel that are in Ukraine, 15,000 have been destroyed, and another 18,000-20,000 are incapacitated.

"About 60 (tactical groups - ed.) are now operating, but they are connected by battles throughout Ukraine, and somewhere else they have 10 in reserve. These are miserable forces with such a scope and intensity of hostilities. I think that 10 days, maybe 14, they have left to ensure that they are generally capable of active combat. Then the inevitable transition to a positional war, they become on the defensive, as they are now near Kyiv, for example. And there will be no operational scope", Arestovych explained.

He believes that after that tactical battles for small villages will begin, and the Russians have nowhere to wait for reinforcements.

“Even if they scrape up reserves now, although they have huge problems with this, they failed to recruit them in Russia itself and in Syria. And (even if - ed.) They transfer them here, these reserves will not be able to fundamentally change the situation. Then  they are now facing an operational dead end, and then the loss may become (real) within two to three weeks", the adviser to the head of the OP believes.

Ukraine, he said, currently has enough resources to repel attacks, but the Russian Federation will continue to attack from the sky.

"They have enough of these good, Iskander-type air-launched cruise missiles, and they will hit, maybe they will hit more than now", Arestovych said.

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