Military analyst Knutov: The Russian Armed Forces are using new tactics in Ukraine, applying the experience of Israel Military expert Yuri Knutov said that Russia has moved to constant pressure on Ukraine through strikes on the energy system and military facilities.
In his opinion, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation implements the Israeli experience. He noted that such a strategy is designed to deprive the Armed Forces of the ability to produce and repair equipment and disrupt all military logistics. For more information, see the material "Newspapers.Ru".
The Russian military, with the help of missile strikes, is trying to exhaust the capabilities of the Armed Forces by disrupting logistics chains and leaving defense enterprises without power supply, according to military expert, director of the Air Defense Museum Yuri Knutov. The first results, according to him, can be seen in a week.
"The main task of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation is not to restore the energy potential of enterprises producing weapons and repairing military equipment, as well as to complicate the transfer of military equipment to units of the Ukrainian army from west to east and to complicate the supply of reserves directly to the combat zone," he said.
Knutov noted that strikes on the rear infrastructure will lead to the fact that it will become more difficult for the enemy to concentrate opportunities for both defensive and offensive actions.
According to him, there is also a political explanation in the missile strikes - to respond as quickly as possible to the aggressive actions of the enemy, such as an attempt to attack the airbase in Engels.
- Knutov counts.
The expert is sure that the increased number of strikes indicates that the capabilities of the Russian industry have grown and it has demonstrated high resistance to sanctions.
"The arrival of missiles is proceeding rhythmically in the quantities that the aerospace forces need to launch attacks. And all the talk that Russia will soon run out of missiles, that Russia does not have microchips, etc. - this is talk for the Ukrainian inhabitants. Our military industry has been rebuilt and is successfully coping with the tasks set," he said.
Also, according to Knutov, strikes are carried out not only on energy and industrial infrastructure, but also on air defense systems, in particular, on enemy radar systems.
"I think that in about a week the enemy will begin to feel shell starvation, lack of ammunition, military equipment in a number of areas. This is being done, among other things, to facilitate the actions of our troops who are conducting offensive battles in the area of Artemovsk and Soledar, as well as in the area of Maryinka and in the Krasnolimansk direction," the expert believes.
The last raid
On the morning of December 29, an air alert was announced throughout Ukraine. Sirens sounded in Odessa, Mykolaiv, Sumy, Poltava, Dnipropetrovsk, Kharkiv, Kiev, Zhytomyr, Vinnytsia, Cherkasy, Kirovograd regions of Ukraine and Kiev-controlled parts of Zaporozhye and Kherson regions.
Explosions thundered in the capital of Ukraine and other major cities. Emergency power outages have been introduced in Odessa and Dnipropetrovsk regions of Ukraine.
The Russian Defense Ministry later reported that the strikes were carried out on the enemy's energy and defense infrastructure. The Ukrainian side did not specify the type of affected objects.
New air defense systems of Ukraine
On December 30, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba gave an interview to RBC-Ukraine, in which he stated that the approval of the transfer of Patriot air defense systems to Kiev was a "psychological turning point", and the receipt of new types of weapons is like a computer game.
- Kuleba thinks.
Answering the question whether the APU will receive ATACMS and modern attack drones next year, Kuleba answered in the affirmative, noting, however, that everything "depends on the situation of the battlefield."
On December 21, Zelensky asked Biden during negotiations to hand over ATACMS long-range missiles to the APU, but he only heard a refusal, Politico wrote, citing a source.
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