Vladimir Putin’s air force is so “risk-averse” that it has performed poorly during the war in Ukraine, leaving its ground troops “exhausted” as they are being asked to do so much, the British defense chief said on Monday. They said the Russian air force’s shortcomings were a key factor in Moscow’s limited success in the conflict, which is due to enter its fifth month. The Defense Ministry in London said the Russian president had developed a fleet of “modern and capable fighter jets”, but that this was not combined with the “skills set” or “institutional culture” achieved by some Western air forces. . “Some of this failure is due to his training in air combat, which focused on impressing senior officers rather than encouraging air crews to develop a ‘dynamic initiative,’” he said. Defense leaders in the West are waging an information war against Russia, which is a key part of the conflict in Ukraine, so their allegations must be seen in that context.
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However, Russia’s allegations must be taken very seriously, as the Kremlin does not even acknowledge that war is being waged in Ukraine and its denials of war crimes and the killing of thousands of civilians fall in the face of widespread reports from the conflict zone. . In its latest update, the Foreign Ministry said: “Russian ground and regular air operations remained focused on the central Donbass sector over the weekend. “In the conflict to date, the Russian air force has a residual performance. Its failure to provide stable air power is probably one of the most important factors behind the very limited success of Russia’s campaign. It can not gain complete air superiority and has operated in the style of counter-danger, rarely penetrating deep behind the lines of Ukraine. “Some of the deeper causes of his difficulties echo those of the Russian ground forces.” He added: “For years, much of Russia’s air combat training has a very likely scenario and is designed to impress senior officials, rather than develop a dynamic initiative among aviation crews. “While Russia has an impressive list of relatively modern and capable fighter jets, the Air Force has almost certainly failed to develop the institutional culture and skills needed for its personnel to meet Russia’s ambition to build a more western-style modern air force. campaign. “This has led to a greater than expected burden of trying to fall on the depleted ground troops. and advanced cruise missiles, whose reserves are likely to be depleted. “ Mr Putin’s generals have been seeking to seize the industrial city of Sheverodonetsk in the eastern province of Luhansk for weeks. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has predicted that Russia will escalate its attacks this week. “Obviously, this week we should expect an intensification of its hostile activities from Russia,” he said in a video overnight video on Sunday. “We are getting ready. We are ready.” Russia said Sunday it had captured Metolkine, a village on the outskirts of the city, and that Russia’s state-run TASS news agency had reported that several Ukrainian fighters had surrendered. The Ukrainian military says Russia has had “partial success” in the region. Luhansk Governor Serhiy Gaidai told Ukrainian television that a Russian attack on Toskivka, 20 miles south of Severodonetsk, “also had a degree of success.” In Severodonetsk itself, a city of 100,000 before the war, Mr Gaidai said Russia was in control of “the main part” but not the entire city after heavy fighting, with Ukrainian forces still able to withstand the Azot chemical plant. where hundreds of civilians, including dozens of children, are housed. Both Russia and Ukraine continued heavy bombardment around Sheverodonetsk “with little change in the front line,” the British Defense Ministry said on Sunday. Across the river in the twin city of Lysychansk in Sheverodonetsk, apartment buildings and private homes had been destroyed by Russian bombing, Gaidai said. “People are dying on the streets and in bomb shelters,” he warned. Analysts at the Institute for War Studies, a think tank based in Washington, D.C. in this small area “. NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg has said that the war in Ukraine could last for years and urged Western governments to continue sending state-of-the-art weapons to Ukrainian troops, the German newspaper Bild am Sonntag reported. “We have to prepare for the fact that it may take years. “We must not relinquish our support for Ukraine.” In Ukraine’s second-largest city, Kharkiv, in the northeast of the country, the Russian Ministry of Defense said that Iskander missiles had destroyed weapons recently supplied by Western countries. Russian forces were trying to approach Kharkov, which had been heavily bombed earlier in the war, and turn it into a “front-line town”, a Ukrainian Interior Ministry official said. Ukrainian troops launched a counterattack in the spring, with some troops reaching the Russian border near Kharkov, but have since lost ground. The governor of Russia’s Bryansk region said the border village of Suzemka had been bombed by northern Ukraine, injuring one person and damaging a power plant. Ukraine’s general staff said Russia had deployed an anti-aircraft missile division in Bryansk and had up to three regular battalion groups covering the border in Bryansk and neighboring Kursk. In southern Ukraine, Western weapons have helped Ukrainian forces advance six miles into the Russian-occupied city of Melitopol, its mayor said in a video posted to the Telegram outside the city.
title: “Putin S Air Force Is So Dangerous That It Leaves Its Ground Troops Exhausted Say Britain S Defense Chiefs " ShowToc: true date: “2022-12-16” author: “Michael Williams”
Vladimir Putin’s air force is so “risk-averse” that it has performed poorly during the war in Ukraine, leaving its ground troops “exhausted” as they are being asked to do so much, the British defense chief said on Monday. They said the Russian air force’s shortcomings were a key factor in Moscow’s limited success in the conflict, which is due to enter its fifth month. The Defense Ministry in London said the Russian president had developed a fleet of “modern and capable fighter jets”, but that this was not combined with the “skills set” or “institutional culture” achieved by some Western air forces. . “Some of this failure is due to his training in air combat, which focused on impressing senior officers rather than encouraging air crews to develop a ‘dynamic initiative,’” he said. Defense leaders in the West are waging an information war against Russia, which is a key part of the conflict in Ukraine, so their allegations must be seen in that context.
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However, Russia’s allegations must be taken very seriously, as the Kremlin does not even acknowledge that war is being waged in Ukraine and its denials of war crimes and the killing of thousands of civilians fall in the face of widespread reports from the conflict zone. . In its latest update, the Foreign Ministry said: “Russian ground and regular air operations remained focused on the central Donbass sector over the weekend. “In the conflict to date, the Russian air force has a residual performance. Its failure to provide stable air power is probably one of the most important factors behind the very limited success of Russia’s campaign. It can not gain complete air superiority and has operated in the style of counter-danger, rarely penetrating deep behind the lines of Ukraine. “Some of the deeper causes of his difficulties echo those of the Russian ground forces.” He added: “For years, much of Russia’s air combat training has a very likely scenario and is designed to impress senior officials, rather than develop a dynamic initiative among aviation crews. “While Russia has an impressive list of relatively modern and capable fighter jets, the Air Force has almost certainly failed to develop the institutional culture and skills needed for its personnel to meet Russia’s ambition to build a more western-style modern air force. campaign. “This has led to a greater than expected burden of trying to fall on the depleted ground troops. and advanced cruise missiles, whose reserves are likely to be depleted. “ Mr Putin’s generals have been seeking to seize the industrial city of Sheverodonetsk in the eastern province of Luhansk for weeks. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has predicted that Russia will escalate its attacks this week. “Obviously, this week we should expect an intensification of its hostile activities from Russia,” he said in a video overnight video on Sunday. “We are getting ready. We are ready.” Russia said Sunday it had captured Metolkine, a village on the outskirts of the city, and that Russia’s state-run TASS news agency had reported that several Ukrainian fighters had surrendered. The Ukrainian military says Russia has had “partial success” in the region. Luhansk Governor Serhiy Gaidai told Ukrainian television that a Russian attack on Toskivka, 20 miles south of Severodonetsk, “also had a degree of success.” In Severodonetsk itself, a city of 100,000 before the war, Mr Gaidai said Russia was in control of “the main part” but not the entire city after heavy fighting, with Ukrainian forces still able to withstand the Azot chemical plant. where hundreds of civilians, including dozens of children, are housed. Both Russia and Ukraine continued heavy bombardment around Sheverodonetsk “with little change in the front line,” the British Defense Ministry said on Sunday. Across the river in the twin city of Lysychansk in Sheverodonetsk, apartment buildings and private homes had been destroyed by Russian bombing, Gaidai said. “People are dying on the streets and in bomb shelters,” he warned. Analysts at the Institute for War Studies, a think tank based in Washington, D.C. in this small area “. NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg has said that the war in Ukraine could last for years and urged Western governments to continue sending state-of-the-art weapons to Ukrainian troops, the German newspaper Bild am Sonntag reported. “We have to prepare for the fact that it may take years. “We must not relinquish our support for Ukraine.” In Ukraine’s second-largest city, Kharkiv, in the northeast of the country, the Russian Ministry of Defense said that Iskander missiles had destroyed weapons recently supplied by Western countries. Russian forces were trying to approach Kharkov, which had been heavily bombed earlier in the war, and turn it into a “front-line town”, a Ukrainian Interior Ministry official said. Ukrainian troops launched a counterattack in the spring, with some troops reaching the Russian border near Kharkov, but have since lost ground. The governor of Russia’s Bryansk region said the border village of Suzemka had been bombed by northern Ukraine, injuring one person and damaging a power plant. Ukraine’s general staff said Russia had deployed an anti-aircraft missile division in Bryansk and had up to three regular battalion groups covering the border in Bryansk and neighboring Kursk. In southern Ukraine, Western weapons have helped Ukrainian forces advance six miles into the Russian-occupied city of Melitopol, its mayor said in a video posted to the Telegram outside the city.
