Ukraine uses NATO tactics, destroying  stockpiles eliminates equipment, manpower advantage - Katkov

This was stated by the chief editor of Defense Express Oleg Katkov on Espreso TV live on air.

"There is a process going on in the south that is connected with the fact that we are trying, thanks to long-range systems like HIMARS, to destroy the close rear of the enemy. This is an absolute task facing the Armed Forces, because we use NATO weapons and tactics. The tactic is that parity in the number of weapons cannot be achieved. NATO was never going to fight in numbers. They understood that they would fight with such a Russian horde. It is impossible to compete with Russia in the number of tanks and guns, therefore there is one of the means that eliminates the advantage of the enemy in manpower and equipment - it is the destruction of reserves," he said.

According to the expert, this is a long process that started 2 weeks ago.

"During this time, only 14 publicly known objects were destroyed - ammunition and fuel warehouses, which were destroyed at a depth of 60-70 km from the front line. Then the Russian Federation will begin to move its storage bases further away. Here comes a huge logistical collapse, which is connected with the fact that the rear service in Russia is always historically the weakest link of their army machine," Katkov noted.

He added that moving the warehouse from 70 km to 150 km is a doubling of logistics.

"Twice as many motor vehicles, twice as much capacity of warehouses for delivery, twice as much fuel and personnel. The goal of such strikes is to make logistics as difficult as possible. As soon as the enemy has a shortage of fuel, a shortage of shells, his advantage in weapons is eliminated. We come out at least on parity, better - we have to come out on our advantage, because if there is no fuel, then there is no difference how many tanks and guns Russia has," Katkov concluded.