Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
There is a precedent for a post Christmas military offensive.
[Regnum] Russia could ruin Christmas for Ukraine if it decides to go on the attack, said the former head of the Estonian Defense Forces, member of the European Parliament, and retired general Riho Terras .
“Ukraine’s strength is running out. Russia doesn’t have many of them either, but it may have enough for a Christmas offensive,” he said on the ERR television and radio company.
According to him, the Russian Armed Forces have significantly increased pressure on Ukraine, and “two very important weeks lie ahead.”
Terrace added that if the front collapses and Russia “takes some large populated area, it will send a bad signal to the whole world.”
As Regnum reported , on December 19, Russian Defense Minister General of the Army Sergei Shoigu said at an extended meeting of the department’s board that the losses of the Ukrainian Armed Forces since the beginning of the special military operation amounted to more than 383 thousand military personnel. Also, Ukrainian troops lost 14 thousand tanks, infantry fighting vehicles and armored personnel carriers, 553 aircraft, 259 helicopters, as well as 8.5 thousand field artillery guns and multiple launch rocket systems.
Russian President Vladimir Putin, during a board meeting, noted that Kiev was suffering heavy losses, its reserves were largely wasted due to attempts to show the West the results of the counteroffensive. The Russian leader also noted that the myth about the invulnerability of Western military equipment collapsed during the Northern Military District.
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