Is Putin really at his wits end?
According to British Admiral Sir Tony Radakin, it will take 5 years for the “Russian army’s strength to be restored to its February 2022 level,” which was the start of the “special operation” launched in Ukraine by the Kremlin leader.
The Russian armed forces have been significantly reduced since the start of the war. On August 19, the Ukrainian General Staff specified that Russian military losses had exceeded 600,000 men, with material losses being just as significant. A threshold has therefore been crossed.
And, despite the damage from the war on the Russian side, Sir Tony Radakin believes that Moscow will probably be able to quickly rebuild its forces in the coming years, reports The Daily Digest. At the Royal United Services Institute’s Land Warfare 2024 Conference, the British admiral said that Vladimir Putin will need “five years to rebuild the Russian army to the level it was in February 2022.” He said it would take as many years to "correct the weaknesses that the war has exposed."
(MH with Manon Pierre - Source: The Daily Digest - Picture: The Presidential Press and Information Office via Wikicommons under license Creative Commons CC BY 4.0)