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According to the expert, if there is a mass surrender of Russians into captivity, it will have a serious effect on the other part of the occupiers, but that point is still far away.
«But how long this level of motivation works, we will test on the right bank of the Dnieper, where a rather powerful group of 12-14 thousand people is currently located. The main command has already left there, but the middle-ranking commanders and the contingent itself have remained, and we will have to «knock them out». There we will see what will happen: fierce battles to the death or surrender. If there is a mass surrender – from 3 to 6 thousand personnel – it will already have a serious effect on the rest of the occupiers’ groups. But this point still isn’t quite close,» – he said.
At the same time, Petro Chernyk adds that the greatest success of the Russian army was the capture of Severodonetsk and Lysychansk. And, in fact, they haven’t made any serious progress since then. In the area of Pisky, the Russians succeeded only for a few kilometres, which is a true shame for the second army in the world, perhaps the most powerful after the US army, as they declare themselves.
«The fact that the Ukrainians managed to stop this military force with regular conventional weapons, to show incredible tactical skill, is a phenomenon in itself. Moreover, we foiled their blitzkrieg, they failed to build the so-called large operational arc from Kharkiv through Zaporizhzhia and Dnipro to Transnistria – and this is our success. The second point is that we indicated the enemy’s real pain points. Now, 95 per cent of war is artillery war. We learned to hit their ammunition deep in their rear,» – he says.
We will remind you that earlier, Petro Chernyk explained why we shouldn’t rely much on the enemy’s low morale and the support of Turkey in grain exports. In our studio, we discussed the revision of the Ukrainian army’s approach to the battles, the danger of further missile attacks from the Black Sea and the possibility of a Belarusian offensive. You can read more here.
Translated by Vitalii Holich
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