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Retired Russian colonel Mikhail Khodarenok stated any discuss Ukraine with the ability to counterattack is a “massive exaggeration,” only a day after he criticized Russia’s navy operations in Ukraine saying the scenario for Russia might “worsen.”
Chatting with a Russian state TV channel on Wednesday, Khodarenok stated, “When individuals discuss Ukraine buying the power to counterattack, effectively it is a massive exaggeration. And as issues the actions of our supreme command, there may be each cause to imagine that the implementation of those plans will within the very close to future give Ukraine an disagreeable shock.”
He additionally stated it could be unattainable for the Ukrainian armed forces to achieve aerial supremacy within the subsequent few months, and by way of gaining naval supremacy, he stated, “whereas our Black Sea Fleet is within the Black Sea, Ukraine’s Black Sea Fleet having supremacy is out of the query.”
On Tuesday nevertheless, Khodarenok stated data being unfold a couple of “ethical or psychological breakdown” of Ukrainian armed forces will not be even “near actuality.” He additionally stated Ukraine might arm 1 million individuals, and that Russia wants to think about that in its operational and strategic calculations.
“The scenario for us, will frankly worsen,” he stated on Tuesday. He additionally criticized Russia’s geopolitical isolation from the world, and previous to the invasion he warned that it could be harder than many anticipated to wage conflict in Ukraine.
Earlier reporting from CNN’s Tim Lister, Anastasia Graham Yooll and Taras Zadorozhnyy.