RE: Putin war neutralized ?29 May 2022 07:18
"and that was from some retired,military guy,on sky news,the other day"
And that retired Military guy also said that Putin has a nine month window in which to win the war as it will take 9 months before the Ukraine Military will be able to benefit from the heavy weapons/artillery/vehicles that is being supplied by the west. It will take this long to train the Ukrainian forces to use the equipment supplied, so these forces cannot be used on the front line to fight until then. So until these forces are trained and put into action with the heavy equipment supplied by the west the Russians should have the upper hand.
"Russia has eight to nine months left to win the war before Ukraine's counteroffensive will be able to push Russian forces out of the country, former NATO General Konstantinos Loukopoulos said.
Talking to Al Jazeera, Lieutenant General Loukopoulos, a retired NATO commander who has taught tank warfare at military academies in Kyiv and Moscow, said that Ukrainian forces have recently been successful at pushing back Russian troops in the northern cities of Chernihiv, Sumy and Kharkiv, but they will need to put all the weaponry supplied by Western countries to use to defeat Russian forces and take back occupied territory.
But that will take time, said the former general. Ukraine will need up to nine months to assimilate the military equipment it has received from Western countries to support its counterattack on Russia, according to Loukopoulos.
Tanks and armored vehicles need an initial stage of personal training and team training for the driver, gunner, reloader and commander," Loukopoulos told Al Jazeera.
"They need tactical training, including test firing and exercises, which cannot be done in a few weeks. The training cycle is at least six months, and that doesn't change in wartime," he said.
"For Ukraine to absorb the weapons from the West and make them operational, form the right units, and train them, it needs eight, nine months. It can't pull active units from the front to train them," the former general told Al Jazeera, adding that that is the timeframe Putin has to win the war in Ukraine.
The Greek former general believes that right now Russian forces have the upper hand in Ukraine, but there could be an upheaval in the next few months as Ukrainian forces start operating all the equipment sent by the West.
"After a few months, with training of reserve units, there could be a [Ukrainian] strategic counteroffensive that could throw the Russians out," Loukopoulos said. But right now, he believes Ukrainian forces cannot launch such a large-scale counterattack."
https://www.newsweek.com/putin-has-9-months-win-ukraine-war-former-nato-general-says-1710329
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