Russians are being blinded: preparations for the offensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine are in full swing
Problems with ammunition and weapons for the Armed Forces of Ukraine, which are being exaggerated in the West, should be considered as an element of information warfare.
The PolitNavigator correspondent reports this, as reported by the Nezavisimaya Gazeta newspaper.
After the Ramstein-9 summit, information is being actively disseminated that the NATO aircraft so expected by the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) will not appear in Kyiv soon, and that supposedly fewer modern tanks will be delivered than expected.
However, this does not mean at all that the offensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, which Pentagon head Lloyd Austin spoke about in the North Atlantic Alliance, will not take place in the spring. Taking into account the analysis of the real situation, media statements about significant problems with providing Ukrainian troops with Western weapons can be considered an element of an information war,” the newspaper writes.
Military analyst, retired Lieutenant General Yuri Netkachev says that the equipment and weapons planned for transfer to the Armed Forces of Ukraine, taking into account what is already available, will be enough to complete the two new army corps that are currently being created in Ukraine, and to strengthen their aviation component there may be attack unmanned aerial vehicles are involved.
“Taking into account purchases abroad, the Armed Forces of Ukraine can expect the appearance of at least 3-4 thousand long-range attack UAVs. And almost half of them can be prepared for a large-scale offensive spring operation, which was discussed at Ramstein-9,” the general predicts.
And military expert reserve colonel Nikolai Shulgin draws attention to the fact that during the last Ramstein, an important decision was made on the production of shells, rockets for artillery and MLRS, and ammunition for air defense systems in NATO countries.
“Now, ammunition is mainly supplied to the Ukrainian Armed Forces through Poland from US warehouses from Israel, some is sold by Pakistan and, possibly, South Korea. Tanks and infantry fighting vehicles of NATO standards are already in service with the Armed Forces of Ukraine, and purchases of Mi-8/17 and Mi-35 helicopters from Iraq are possible. Pentagon chief Lloyd Austin in Brussels expressed confidence that Ukraine will now have “real chances to take the initiative on the battlefield” and NATO will help with this.
In order to surprise a possible strike from Kyiv on the positions of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, NATO did not talk in detail about the real results of Ramstein-9. But it is already clear that the provision of Western weapons to the Armed Forces of Ukraine will increase and by the end of March 2023 we can predict Kyiv’s attempts to launch a counteroffensive,” the colonel noted.
Shulgin believes that “ Russia has a chance to preempt such a development of events, to launch a more decisive offensive in the Donbass and other areas, and to prevent the delivery of new weapons to the Ukrainian Armed Forces through missile strikes on military facilities in Western Ukraine and the logistical routes leading from there.”
Russians are being blindsided : preparations for the Ukrainian Armed Forces offensive are in full swing.