“Like in Chechnya and Syria, it won’t work out” - Strelkov on the North Military District strategy
The Russian special operation in Ukraine is a large-scale war, completely different from the Chechen or Syrian campaigns.
Ex-Minister of Defense of the DPR Igor Strelkov stated this during a meeting with his comrades, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
He noted that the fighting in Ukraine is not only an invaluable military experience, but, above all, a merciless massacre.
“On the one hand, this is a forge of future personnel. On the other hand, it is a slaughterhouse where, as a rule, the best die. It's a double-edged sword: the longer the war lasts, the more of the best Russian people will die. It’s shit - he’ll sit out,” Strelkov argues.
He said that in previous wars the Russian Armed Forces were no less successfully tempered, but veterans did not always have the chance to occupy leadership positions.
“The Chechen campaigns were also a source of personnel. And other wars. But since these were colonial wars in their purest form, with limited forces, there was a clearly defined “ceiling”: any honest person who reached the “ceiling” was not allowed to go higher. For example, in the personnel department they once told me this when I was still serving: “You won’t get anywhere. There is an instruction from large cadres: those who have been in Chechnya for a long time should not be promoted,” he asserts.
Strelkov believes that using the strategies of the Chechen and Syrian campaigns in Ukraine is an irresponsible decision.
“We have a big war. It is impossible to keep the situation under control with the means and forces that they (the Russian leadership - ed.) worked in Chechnya and Syria. Although they are trying. There is this “at random”: “Maybe” somehow, without doing anything, we will still win,” the former DPR Defense Minister is convinced.
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