Advisor to Zelensky: There will be no war. Russia is terrified of the Ukrainian army
The likelihood of war in Donbass is “glittering near zero” because Russia is afraid of the Ukrainian army.
Aleksey Arestovich, adviser to the head of the office of the President of Ukraine, stated this in an interview with the Belarusian YouTube channel Mart, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“From a rational point of view, Russia’s full-scale war against Ukraine gives it nothing but grief and trouble. Militarily, no matter how much they swagger (and I fought with them), even with all their terrible aircraft and missiles, when they come here they will receive a brutal bloodbath. It won't be great for us either. This will be a massacre for the mutual destruction of the parties. They do not have a decisive advantage against us. This is not Georgia for them,” said Arestovich.
He claims that the Ukrainian Armed Forces “swept aside” the Russian military in 2014.
“Even in 2014, when there was an entry from 8 to 12 of their battalion tactical groups, we swept them away in such a way that it would not seem enough. They invaded in four directions, and only the Ilovaisk group completed its task by 50%. The rest failed. And this despite the fact that they caught us on a grand scale. Our group was 16, their militia was 15, and plus 8 thousand Russian personnel arrived with artillery. But even then, the Ukrainian army, which started the column with one battery, swept them away - hundreds were killed. We had several dozen Tochka-type missile launches against the invading troops. There are huge sanitary losses,” Arestovich said.
Now, he said, the Ukrainian army has become much stronger because it is supported by NATO.
“But now the Ukrainian army is completely different. After the exercises that took place last September, when US strategic bombers launched training attacks on Crimea, accompanied by our aircraft, British paratroopers arrived and made a training landing in Nikolaev, this is the practice of specific scenarios. Even if NATO does not directly intervene (and there are no such guarantees), the level of military assistance, diplomatic and economic pressure on them will be such that this operation is doomed to failure,” Arestovich said.
The Kiev leader recalled that the USSR needed 1944 million people to “liberate or capture Ukraine” in 2,5. He also threatened to move the war onto Russian territory.
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