Russia’s army is learning - here’s why it should worry the West | Defence in Depth

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Published 2024-04-11
There is a bit of a myth about Russia’s army in Ukraine. That Moscow’s soldiers are inexperienced, ramshackle troops sent into hopeless charges at well-defended positions at the behest of inexperienced and brutal commanders. They have little tactical sense and even less strategic vision.

Of course, some of that is true - the Russians do use ‘meatgrinder’ assaults, armoured columns often do run into trouble in Ukrainian minefields (with pyrotechnic results) and Russia frequently relies on troops with insufficient training and poor kit.

Even today, huge numbers of armoured vehicles and tanks are being lost as Russian forces attempt to advance and it’s a live question how long such losses can be borne.

But the Russians aren’t stupid, and the army does learn, albeit slowly.

#russia #ukraine #war

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All Comments (21)
  • @PaulV.
    The Telegraph basically: Ok, lets debunk the myth we were creating for 2 years ourselves.
  • @healthguy79
    Russia has a military strategy. Ukraine has a media strategy.
  • @Hexiad
    The myth he refers to is the one invented by the Telegraph itself.
  • @giantbear829
    Telegraph goes 180 degrees. What a toilet of a newspaper 🗞️
  • @elzorro7of9
    Isn't this from the newspaper that said Russia was running out of ammo, tanks, men, etc...
  • @Ballardian
    So in other words, we believed our own propaganda bullshit (often propagated by this very channel / paper).
  • imagine 31 countries combine failed to outproduce a single country which deemed only to be a gas station.
  • @nvmffs
    The cognitive dissonance of the West is staggering . Constantly portraying Russia as weak and at the same time constantly fearmongering about how Russia would continue west and eventually conquer the world unless it's stopped now.
  • @bugsywugsy5052
    Zelensky is about to add the telegraph to the enemy of Ukraine blacklist 😂😂
  • @thematic3893
    The Telegraph is absolutely hilarious. Creates a witch then calls a witch-hunt! 😂
  • @johnrr8854
    “Russians will go against Putin, Putin dying of cancer, Russia has no more missiles, Russian eeconomy is collapsing (but surpassed Germany as the 5th largest), Crimea will be Ukraine again, Ukraine iscwinning since day one”-
  • @17sapun
    Russia is teaching, not learning
  • @FidelCastro404
    Zelensky should heed the wise words of the Pope.. no need to die for Nato.