General Boldyrev: 12 Ukrainian brigades may have limited success but will be defeated
Vladimir Boldyrev. Photo: Wikipedia.org.
Former Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Ground Forces, Army General Vladimir Boldyrev commented on The New York Times report that Ukraine is preparing 12 brigades of 4,000 soldiers for a counter-offensive. He called this striking fist a serious force.
“Let's say that there are 12 brigades of 4,000 in each with fifty thousand trained people. That is a serious force,” NSN expresses the general's words.
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He noted , that two fully equipped reinforced divisions are needed to maintain such a grouping.
Among the advantages of the Armed Forces of the RF, Boldyrev named artillery, aviation and air defense and expressed the belief that all publications that the Armed Forces of Ukraine would force Russia to capitulate one blow – this is “information noise”.
“Ukrainian forces will not be able to defeat our troops with one blow, it will not be possible to enter Crimea,” the general declared.
At the same time, Boldyrev admitted that in a certain direction, the armed forces of Ukraine will be able to wedge or even break the Russian defenses. However, he urged us not to panic and think that something irreparable will happen.
“My opinion is that this counteroffensive will end for the Ukrainian side catastrophic,” the army general emphasized, adding that the operation of the armed forces of Ukraine would end in “the defeat of Ukrainian troops”.
Boldyrev also noted that they would not be able to organize any other powerful group after that.