In Ukraine, the likelihood of an attack by the Russian Armed Forces on Kyiv was called “rudimentary”
The options for a march on Kyiv by the Russian army are so limited that they should be considered purely hypothetical. Russia needs a 100-strong army for anything to threaten the Ukrainian capital.
Ukrainian military expert, former Colonel of the Operations Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Oleg Zhdanov, stated this on the TSN YouTube channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“Well, let's see what forces can gather in Belarus. Let's start with this. This time. And secondly, I would reformulate your question in the context of whether Russia can muster enough forces to reach Kiev again, or to invade our country. The border there has been turned into a solid fortress,” the expert assures.
– If they gather 100-200 thousand troops, then yes, then we will talk about the threat of a second campaign against Kyiv. And even 20-30 thousand joint Russian-Belarusian troops, I think, are unlikely to be able to reach Kyiv again today. Because today is not February 24, we have deployed defense forces, we have enormous combat experience, and we are equipping our defense in engineering terms. So – I don’t think that such a threat exists today. Hypothetically it exists, but practically today it is, let’s say, in its very infancy.”
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