NATO Officials: “It’s Russia’s Spring Offensive – That’s All”

According to Ukraine, Russia launched a new offensive in the eastern Ukrainian regions of Donetsk and Luhansk in early February. “An expansion is underway and the main goal is up Take Donbass at the end of March», said Andriy Yusov of Ukrainian military intelligence at the time.

Many military experts also weighed in With a massive onslaught at the start of the year of Russian troops. So far, this has not happened – and according to NATO’s top official, it will not happen again, he says in an interview with “BUILD”.

So far no progress has been made in the direction of Kiev

«This is the Russian Spring Offensive. She is like that. That’s it,” says the unnamed expert, adding that the fighting is already raging, especially in the Donbass. Indeed, military experts and the Ukrainian government reckoned that large Russian troops could advance in the direction of Kiev and Kharkiv.

According to a senior NATO official, there are several reasons for the failure or the greatly reduced scale of the spring offensive. There is still a reluctance to send Russian soldiers to Ukraine on a large scale, while Putin increasingly prefers to rely on their influence rather than the mercenaries of Prigozhin’s Wagner group.

“Russian weapons systems are inferior”

In addition, the Kremlin was forced to realize that many of those who were stationed in the war Russian weapons systems to counterparts supplied by Western countries hopelessly inferior. But there is also a shortage of ammunition – in the past, Yevgeny Prigozhin has repeatedly complained that his Wagner fighters no longer have access to artillery shells and other projectiles.

The thought of deploying the Russian air force, which is vital to an effective advance, could cause headaches for strategists in the Kremlin. Since the beginning of the war, Russian pilots have not had a good record – many of the electronic components needed to build new jets are not available in Russia due to Western sanctions, and the Kremlin is losing dozens of planes.

Russia has never been able to defend air sovereignty

According to OSINT platform Oryxspioenkop.com, despite numerical superiority and modern aircraft, Russia has already lost 79 aircraft, while the Ukrainian Air Force has lost a total of 61 aircraft. Also, the Kremlin has not succeeded in gaining air supremacy.

NATO official sums up the war in a nutshell Motto “Quantity and Quality” Together. While Russia is fighting large numbers with poorly trained and expendable personnel, unguided artillery ammunition and inaccurate rockets, Ukraine is fighting with few, but well-trained soldiers and Western precision weapons.

Another point is the very high losses on the Russian side. “In July of last year, that number was 173 per day, and in February of this year, 824 Russian soldiers and mercenaries were killed or wounded per day.” And with them Losses on the Russian side are “many times higher” than the Ukrainians.

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