Retired German Brig. Gen. Erich Vad disagrees with Western propaganda assessments that the Russians are on the losing track in Ukraine. In an interview with the Swiss weekly Weltwoche, Vad said that he initially overestimated the Russian military, and assumed that the Russian army would march through to Kyiv. “I overestimated them and underestimated the Ukrainians’ will to resist.” Today, however, one runs the risk of underestimating the Russians, he added, pointing out that it is the Russians who are currently determining where to strike, and with which forces. “They are proceeding slowly in the Donbass, on a front approximately 500 km wide, with 100,000 men.”
For the Ukrainians, he said, it is now important not to rely on the decisive counterattack with conventional forces, especially heavily armored ones. Liberating the Donbass is militarily impossible, he said. “The Russians are too strong for that; they have military dominance on the ground and in the air. The Ukrainians’ chance is to drag out the conflict, drive up the cost for the Russians and wear them out. In the end, that may lead to victory.” (https://weltwoche.ch/daily/alt-brigade-general-erich-vad-ueber-den-krieg-putins-albtraum-selenskyj-im-rausch-des-sieges-gefaehrlich-bakhdi-angeklagt-wegen-volksverhetzung-drosten-daemmerung-autokratische-zuege-schaeuble/)
