Russia created a 40,000-strong group of professional troops in the occupied Donbas, which would be a serious problem for the APU in the event of an offensive. The representative of Ukraine in the Minsk Contact Group, ex-head of the Security Service, former Defense Minister Yevhen Marchuk.
"We had to hear" Give us a command, we'll get to Rostov "and so on. You need to be realistic, not working with illusions, patriotic, beautiful ... Those who know the realities, very different arguments. This is reported by the portal "Patriots of Ukraine".
First, any offensive operation, as these guys say about Rostov, you need to prepare. On the other side - two army corps, 36 thousand, this minimum, and maybe 40 organized, structured, trained, ridden in battle under Russian officers, without signs of identification. This is no longer tractor drivers and combine operators, as Putin said, "Marchuk said..
He also complained that Russian military intelligence sees what is happening in the APU, as in the palm of our hand, as it constantly monitors our territory in the intelligence sense.
"In which? And radio-electronic reconnaissance, and, of course,. Aircraft of Russian aviation, reconnaissance, approximately two or three times a month approach the front line, but at high altitude. It's clear that they conduct both optical and electronic reconnaissance in depth, "Marchuk said..
According to him, among other things, for the offensive will have to prepare a large army of reservists and the corresponding infrastructure.
"What does it mean to prepare an offensive operation before Rostov? I'm not talking to Rostov anymore - at least let Donetsk free. It is necessary to conduct additional mobilization, additional resources need to be tightened up. Any offensive without reserves is an adventure.
And what do the offensive armies mean? They also need to provide structures of offensive construction, rather than defensive. These are other forms of military organisms. Naturally, all this is hidden to do today is impossible, "summarized Marchuk.