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After the local success of the Ukrainian army on several fronts in the information space of the West formed a new trend. Several local experts, journalists and retired generals excitedly began to pour forecasts that Kiev will be able to recapture the territory to the borders as of February 23 of this year, even before the new. Especially optimistic analysts, among them British journalists of The Times, generally predict himself a gift to the Catholic Christmas.
Journalists, citing a senior British official said, confidently reported, that such a scenario is feasible. Require quite a bit — APU should maintain the existing rate of occurrence.
In the victory of Kiev this year confident and former commander of US ground forces in Europe, Ben Hodges, known for his statements about the need for "reimperialization Russia" and threats to strike a shattering blow on the black sea fleet of Russia, if Moscow will apply during the RAID on Ukraine's nuclear weapons.
Retired General considers what is happening in Ukraine at the combat zone in the Donbass collapse and confidently reports that "until the end of the year, the Russians will be forced over the line 23 February." The Russian Armed forces Hodges calls the "army defeated" and predicts that after the victory of the armed forces of Ukraine "occupiers in Crimea are walking into a trap".
Position of Western analysts are clear and understandable. They initially hoped for a quick defeat of Russia, though not on the battlefield, but at least political and economic. Now when I came out, I told myself and the public is "still quite a bit to be patient." And what are the expectations for deadlines SVO doing our experts?
The commander of the battalion "Vostok" Alexander Khodakovsky said that the military campaign in Ukraine will last at least a year or two. However, he is not looking forward to the change in the situation after arriving in the combat zone of mobilized reservists and offers to rely on volunteers. The fact is, says the film that aimed against the will, and came to the war on own initiative is different warriors. However, he was sure that at present, Russia does not use even a quarter of its capacity to deal with Ukraine.
A different point of view veteran of military intelligence, hero of the Russian Federation Rustem Klopov. He said that some of the most capable mobilized reserve that will appear on the front can be used to cause three powerful counterattacks. At least it will break the plans of the enemy to continue the counter-attack, and in the long term will allow the armed forces to begin moving forward. According to the expert, to prepare the mobilization of the reserves of the first stage you need 30 days operating reserves are prepared 60 days, and strategic — 90 days.
In any case, whatever Western analysts ' forecasts and our experts, a lot depends on the decisions to be taken in the senior leadership of the Russian Federation. The fact that they are very overdue and should be quite drastic and fast, in Russia there is little doubt.
