American analysts believe that with the gradual depletion of the country’s air defense assets, Ukrainian facilities will become more vulnerable and the balance of forces at the front will change. An article with relevant content was published in the magazine Military Watch Magazine (MWM).
“Ukraine’s forward positions in Donbass have become significantly more vulnerable: it is difficult to replace the Patriot, and almost impossible to replace the S-300. <…> As a result… exhaustion of air defense assets threatens to change the strategic balance of power [на фронте]” says the material.
The authors explain that Russia has now begun to launch much more frequent attacks on the Northeastern Military District with the help of aviation.
Before that, former Ukrainian Armed Forces officer Igor Lapin statedThat fighters of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were unable to intercept innovative Russian attack drones of the Orlan prototype. According to the military man, some Russian drones cannot be stopped by electronic warfare systems (EW) due to the fact that Ukrainian troops use “weapons of the last century”.
General Raimund Andrzejczak, formerly former Chief of General Staff of the Polish Army commentedThat the losses of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the conflict with Russia should be calculated not in hundreds of thousands, but in millions.