Ruslan Pukhov, a military analyst, director of the Moscow Analytical Center for Strategies and Technologies (CAST), member of the Public Council of the Russian Ministry of Defense, said what leverage the Ukrainian Armed Forces will use in the future spring offensive. mk.ru.
According to the expert, in the initial stages of hostilities, the Armed Forces of Ukraine countered the artillery advantage of the Russian army by adding reconnaissance aircraft to the former Soviet mass artillery and multiple-launch rocket systems using the Starlink global satellite system. communication. Long-range weapons, especially French CAESAR self-propelled guns, and American M982 Excalibur long-range guided artillery shells are now supplied to Kiev by the West. Pukhov explains that this armament was used by the Armed Forces of Ukraine during the offensive of Russian troops.
“The presence of a large number of long-range artillery and precision-guided munitions in the Ukrainian Armed Forces may lead the situation in the Ukrainian spring offensive to a certain positional impasse,” says the analyst.
According to him, the Russian army can counter the long-range systems of the Ukrainian Armed Forces with the help of cruise and ballistic missiles and attack aircraft, which can hit Ukrainian military installations tens and hundreds of kilometers from the front line.
Former military expert Alexander Perendzhiev declarationTo determine the direction of the spring counterattack of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the Russian military leadership needs to carefully study the reports. According to the Politico newspaper, Kiev has not yet set a strategy, but its target is the Crimea.