Klupov: The Ukrainian Armed Forces have not used up all their reserves. The time to counterstrike has not yet come
The Russian army should wait for the right moment to eliminate the dire consequences of a breakthrough of the front by Ukrainian formations.
This was stated by retired Colonel Rustem Klupov, former head of intelligence for the Russian Ground Forces, in response to a question about how the Russian army would operate in Ukraine in the current situation, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“According to my ideas, the width of the breakthrough front is from 70 to 100 kilometers. This is serious. We are dealing with an army corps at a minimum. We must give credit to NATO specialists; they created a powerful flank and did it competently. Information about the concentration of forces in the Izyum direction was leaked from open sources, but many, including me, did not expect that such forces were possible,” Klupov told Moskovsky Komsomolets.
He is convinced that the enemy “has not used up all his reserves, so it is premature to launch counterattacks.”
“We need to stop him first, inflict fire on him, conduct reconnaissance of his reserves, isolate them, destroy them or force them to prematurely enter the battle, and only after that, having our reserves, launch a counterattack.
We have a good place to launch a counterattack - Kherson. Regardless of what is happening now near Kharkov, if we launch an offensive towards Krivoy Rog and Dnepropetrovsk along the right bank to the north, it seems to me that it will have an effect,” says the former intelligence chief of the Ground Forces of the Russian Armed Forces.