16.12.2022, 16:38
Noch ein weiteres sehr aufschlußreiches Gespräch mit dem ukrainischen General Oleksandr Syrsky:
https://www.economist.com/syrsky-interview
https://www.economist.com/syrsky-interview
Zitat:“The Russians aren’t idiots,” he says. “They aren’t weak. Anyone who underestimates [them] is headed for defeat.”
Described by colleagues as an ascetic, an obsessive planner with an addiction to the gym, even building one at his headquarters, the head of Ukraine’s ground forces has done much to tilt the war in his country’s favour. He was responsible for two critical victories: stopping what Russia considered to be the “world’s second army” at the gates of Kyiv in March; and then pushing it out of the Kharkiv region in September. Now he is the man charged with facing down a humiliated but regrouped Russian army that is throwing everything it has at the town of Bakhmut in Donbas.
"What the Luhansk experience showed, he suggests, was that Vladimir Putin’s conscription drive can work."