72085 - Reflexions on Russian shift in strategy. (Transcription of Podcast #18)

Ν. Λυγερός

So we have news about the Russian invasion in Ukraine and right now the Russian Defense Ministry said that they will drastically reduce military activity on two fronts, so they mean by that they’re going to change and shift their strategy. In fact I’m very skeptical about that. I think that in reality they simply stack at this level, so they have to find another way to say the same thing and in fact they can’t accept that we have a defeat at the strategic level of the Russian invasion. So now they try to convince us that in reality it was a plan. In fact no, it was a defeat, so now they are changing their plans and they want to show that the principal idea of their attack was only the two regions, but we know already and we have a lot of information about that, that the initial plan was the conquest of Kiev. So it was impossible with it’s army because the are not special forces, the are only simple guys with no so much experience and on the other side Ukrainian resist a lot maybe too much for Russian, they underestimate this resistance and now we see the result. Because now we have many parts of Ukraine which are now free and it was few days before and few weeks of course totally impossible to imagine this result but in fact is reality and this is the new reality and it will influence also the negotiation in Turkey.