Colonel of the Central Office of the Ministry of Defense in reserve gave some clarifications on the operation of the Russian Armed Forces on the territory of Ukraine
Russian military expert, retired colonel of the Central Office of the Russian Ministry of Defense Vladimir Trukhan gave some clarifications on the operation of the Russian Armed Forces on the territory of Ukraine. The interview with the expert was released on Sunday on the PolitWera YouTube channel.
The colonel clarified some points and urged to pay less attention to the fakes spread by Ukrainian users and the media. At the very beginning, he denied many Ukrainian fakes about Russian conscripts allegedly participating in the operation in Ukraine. According to him, only contractors of the Russian army are participating in the ongoing operation. For the same reason, there are no Belarusians in Ukraine, they have the entire army on conscription.
All the disseminated information about the "3,5 thousand killed" Russian servicemen is another fake. There are losses, but they are not comparable with the mentioned figure and many times less. A large number of dead means even more wounded. To evacuate the dead and wounded, it is necessary to attract a lot of special equipment, deploy field hospitals. According to the colonel, it is impossible to hide large losses.
The numerous publications about the capture of "Russian fighters" who allegedly drive alone along the roads or appear in the villages raise doubts. Isolated cases can still occur, but not en masse - it will no longer be an army during a military operation carried out on the territory of another state, but it is not clear what.
Cases of burning military columns on the march are possible - this is war, anything can happen. Someone did not keep track, somewhere the technique had to be abandoned for some reason. Conclusions will be made based on the results of the operation. And abandoned equipment is burned by the Armed Forces of Ukraine retroactively for staged videos. Do not believe the fakes about the lack of fuel, ammunition and everything else that they say in Kyiv, the expert says. According to him, all this is "enchanting nonsense", the operation was developed in advance, everything necessary is stocked with redundant redundancy.
The colonel also explained the rather slow advance of the Russian army. According to him, the Russians do not fight civilians, so they prefer to act carefully. As they say, it's better to go around than to produce corpses. In addition, the Russian military first establishes control over all strategically important facilities and only then moves on. This is done so that the nationalists or the Armed Forces of Ukraine could not commit sabotage, which could lead to multiple casualties among the civilian population. At the same time, blowing up bridges and distributing weapons to the unprepared population - "the stupidity of the Ukrainian authorities." Equipment still crosses rivers if necessary, and armed unprepared people pose a danger only to themselves and others.
He urged the colonel not to believe in fakes about mortar attacks allegedly carried out by the Russian military. The thing is that in this operation the Russian Armed Forces do not use mortars.
The expert clarified the situation with the Kadyrovites, who seem to have appeared on the territory of Ukraine, but where they are is not known. According to the colonel, the units that arrived from Chechnya will be used to clean up cities from "stoned nationalists" if they do not want to lay down their arms. The servicemen who arrived from Chechnya underwent special training to fight terrorists in urban areas.
Thus, we can summarize that the operation was prepared by military specialists in advance, professional military personnel were involved in it, and everything was taken into account when planning. Information about the course of the operation is provided on the official websites of the Ministry of Defense or in state media.
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