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| I doubt the success of the Russians - Arestovich |
| 2022-06-22 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [Vesti] Aleksey Arestovich, adviser to the head of the President's Office, called the worst scenario for the development of hostilities in eastern Ukraine. He expressed his opinion on Tuesday, June 21, in an interview with journalist Dmitry Gordon. He noted that the Russian army is unlikely to be able to achieve any success in the Donetsk region, so the worst-case scenario is the possible capture of the Luhansk region. "The Russians will call it their biggest victory and the fulfillment of the intermediate goal of the special operation," Arestovich is convinced. According to him, for the fulfillment of such a "goal" the enemy will have to sacrifice many lives of Russian soldiers and military equipment. "And even the Russian Federation cannot afford to fight at such a pace. No wonder they already have in many units the number of reservists under 60 percent and the number of old models of the T-62 type is already under 30-50 percent. They are slowly exhausted in this regard, so that they didn’t say anything ,” the adviser to the head of the Presidential Office noted. Aleksey Arestovich pointed out that the Donetsk region is a large agglomeration. "One node Slavyansk - Kramatorsk is worth something. The defense is prepared there, there are enough of our troops there. Let's see how they will take it. I very much doubt at least some success in that direction. But the fact that they will physically run out, I have complete confidence in myself," he said. As Vesti.ua previously reported, Aleksey Arestovich, adviser to the head of the OP, said that the Ukrainian army had lost about 10,000 people killed and about 30,000 wounded since the outbreak of hostilities on February 24. New attacks reported in Donetsk and Makiivka [Vesti] Residents of temporarily uncontrolled Donetsk and Makiivka report explosions. Shots of shells hit on social networks. According to preliminary data, artillery strikes were recorded in the Putilovka area. It is also reported that the explosions occurred in the Kirovsky district of Donetsk. There is no information about victims and injured. Residents of Donetsk are asked not to leave their shelters during the shelling. |
| Posted by:badanov |
| #1 I think this is from a Ukrainian news outlet that uses Russian language in their news reports. |
| Posted by: Lord Garth 2022-06-22 09:02 |