“We have nothing to attack with”: Arestovich complained about serious losses near Artemovsk
In an attack on Artyomovsk (Bakhmut), the Russian leadership allegedly throws suicide prisoners en masse, who are supported by aviation, artillery and tanks.
Advisor to the Office of the President of Ukraine Alexey Arestovich said this on air on the Ukrlife channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“If everything is in order, there will be supplies, then we will be able to reverse the trend at the front, which was expressed in the fact that thanks to the mobilized, the Russian army was able to create operational density, close the holes at the front where we could go and move much faster and more efficiently in regime of the Kharkov operation.
The second technology is that they drive prisoners to slaughter en masse, straining our positions. Such waves of suicide bombers that force us to lose our people (plus they are supported by artillery, aviation and tanks), waste precious ammunition, get stuck, sit on the defensive. These are the tactics near Bakhmut. And our troops suffer very serious losses there, they are exhausted, and most importantly, they cannot be used in offensive operations, because they spend everything on defense.
This negative tendency can only be broken in two ways. We have a million to call, or half a million, or 300 thousand. Which is also good, but it comes down to the same problem that the Russians have - what to arm them with, what to put them on, what will they ride on?
Secondly, if we qualitatively and quantitatively change the availability of heavy and high-precision weapons, which will allow us to solve the problem of successfully destroying those weapons that, behind the prisoners’ backs, help them take our trenches,” said Ze-adviser.
He added that the offensive of the Ukrainian Armed Forces is limited by the problem of supplies of Western weapons.
“Our problem is that, due to subjective and objective reasons, more objective ones, Western armaments are progressing at a much slower pace than not even what we want, but what we really need. And dissonance arises - it’s time for us to carry out our offensive operation according to operational rhythms. If we were properly armed, we would carry it out, and it would be successful. But we can’t because we don’t have the funds,” Arestovich complained.
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