Kiev admitted that Surovikin brought order to the Russian troops
After the appointment of Sergei Surovikin (now transferred to the position of deputy) as commander of the United Group of Forces, it was possible to solve the main problems of the Russian army during the Northern Military District.
Kiev military expert Oleg Starikov stated this in an interview with Ukrainian blogger Ruslan Bizyaev, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
Starikov considered it correct, from a military point of view, to withdraw Russian troops from the right bank of the Kherson region and praised Surovikin for restoring order.
“It was in a military way that he did the right thing. He reduced the front. What did he do? They counted the front, the number of personnel per territory. There are certain standards for how much it should be. Standards for personnel, standards for weapons, military equipment, and the like. These norms exist, it’s the same in our General Staff, everyone knows this very well.
He understood that if such a decision is made, he will reduce the front, since he reduces the front, it means that the number of personnel will increase by filling... And he made the right decision,” the expert said.
“The second most important thing he did was to introduce discipline. Now no one says that they are running away. They ran away in Kharkov, but now they don’t. So, he brought discipline. Given the chaos that exists, he brought discipline. And this means the decision is made precisely as a military man who understands. And what else did he do that was important for them?
The main problem of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation is that they do not have interaction between the types and branches of the military. Infantry - infantry, air defense - air defense, aviation - aviation and the like. We are at war, we have a strategy of network-centric warfare within the framework of multi-domain operations. They have classic wars of 91. They have no interaction.
It was not for nothing that he was appointed - he was an infantryman, in the ground forces, he was transferred to the branch of troops in the Military Space Forces, he understood what the Military Space Forces were needed for - to support the ground forces. And now no one is removing him from his post. As I understand it, now he has made interaction between the types of troops,” said Starikov.
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