Russia can fight for 6 to 12 months - expert

09 May 2022, 14:49 | Ukraine 
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Director of the non-governmental analytical organization " During an interview with Forbes, he said that the Russian Federation could fight for another 6 to 12 months..

" An example about airplanes. There are 1,500 combat aircraft in service in the Russian Federation, of which about 400 were commissioned after 2010-2011. It was then that the Russians began to implement the military program " For 10 years, under this program, only one Su-57 was produced in Russia. They simply do not have the technology and components to produce them,"

According to him, the invaders will soon have to switch to Soviet-made aircraft, since the Armed Forces of Ukraine have already neutralized about a third of the new aircraft, including Su-35 and Su-34 bombers..

" The resource of powerful aviation missiles Kh-101 and Kh-555 has almost been exhausted. Therefore, such indiscriminate bombing occurs with the destruction of civilian infrastructure.. The Russian army began to use the Bastion anti-ship systems with Onyx missiles. These rockets hit Odessa a few days ago. Experts say Onyx rockets are too expensive to use to destroy a runway. This shows how big the deficit is in Russia,"

But the expert notes that the rashists have many warehouses where mothballed equipment is now located, although it is much older, but still suitable for transfer to the front.

" Russia is a fairly powerful and large country, the inertia of its fall can last for a long time. According to the forecasts of the Center for Research on the Army, Conversion and Disarmament, Russia is capable of fighting from 6 to 12 months if the pressure from Western countries does not increase, if it is even less,"

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Recall, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reports that over the past day, our defenders managed to eliminate 150 Russian invaders. They add that during the entire time of the full-scale invasion, the Russians have already lost 1145 tanks, 158 helicopters and 377 drones.

Today, British intelligence reported that Russia had used up its stockpile of precision-guided missiles in Ukraine.. At the beginning of the war in the Russian Federation, they boasted of "

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