According to British intelligence experts, Russia’s difficulties with its advance in Ukraine are also due to the weaknesses of its air force. For example, pilot training is lagging behind. According to the Institute for the Study of War (ISW), Moscow is also hindering the success of its invasion by continuing to speak of a “military special operation” rather than a war.
According to the ISW, the Kremlin’s failure to use the term war prevents Russia from mobilizing to generate more troops. In addition, the Kremlin lacks the legal means to punish military personnel who refuse to be deployed.
Battle for Sieverodonetsky
According to military experts, Russia’s superiority in artillery armament is not enough to take the administrative center of Sievarodonesk in eastern Ukraine. “Russia’s concentrated artillery capacity, coupled with arguably weakened infantry units, remains insufficient to support the Russian advance into Sieverodonetsk,” the ISW’s latest analysis reads. Russian forces continued to fight for control of the city, but made little progress on Sunday.
According to the experts, Russia will likely continue to try to encircle the former city and cut off supplies to the remaining Ukrainian troops, who are largely entrenched in the Azot chemical plant. However, at the moment there is little progress with this project. In addition, Moscow is preparing an offensive against Sloviansk. The Sloviansk-Kramatorsk area is considered the center of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Donbass region.
Air Force weakened
According to British intelligence experts, Russia’s difficulties with its advance in Ukraine are also due to the weaknesses of its air force. It is very likely that this is one of the main factors behind Russia’s very limited success, an update from the British Ministry of Defense said Monday. So far, the Air Forces have tended to avoid risk in their maneuvers and have been unable to achieve air supremacy. This has increased the pressure on Russian ground forces, which are now increasingly exhausted.
Pilot training as a problem
According to British estimates, the Russians have fighter jets, but they are not well trained for modern air force operations. For years, Russian Air Force training would have been more focused on impressing senior military officials than training dynamic deployment scenarios for various troops.
Source: Krone
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