Latest updates: Ben Wallace says stretched supply chains and Ukrainian resistance means Russian brutality will ‘get worse’
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And here is a full summary of what Ben Wallace said in his morning interviews.
The Russians are considerably behind their schedule, by days not hours, and that leads to stresses on their logistical supply chains. That’s why you have seen some of these columns fairly grind to a halt.
We have definitely seen cases of very quick surrenders by Russian forces, we have seen lots of abandonment of incredible pieces of equipment.
That is what happens when your military leaders don’t prepare you, lie to you or deceive you and also you base a military plan based on an arrogant assumption that you are the liberator.
Invading a country with overwhelming force is one thing, occupying a people of 44 million who don’t want you in it is a very different thing.
I take the view that the best thing that Russian deserters can do is go back to Russia, tell the Russian people they are being deceived, tell the Russian people that their military leaders are causing huge amounts of unnecessary suffering and losses because of either incompetence or arrogance, and they can go back and tell the mothers, who are wondering where their thousands of disappeared sons are.
There’s been a lot of no-fly zone suggestions, and no one seems to actually analyse what no fly zone means and what it would mean for Ukrainian armed forces.
The Ukrainian armed forces are outnumbered on the ground massively by Russian armour and Russian army. One of the few weapons they have against those soldiers on the ground and forces, like those big armoured columns, is the ability to fly their fast jets and to use UAVs to strike logistical chains and their air defences etc.
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