About it 24 Kanala said the head of the analytical department of the Center for Content Analysis Sergey Stukanov. He believes that Putin is now betting on a long war of attrition.
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According to him, the Russians understand that their stockpiles of weapons, including artillery and tanks, have been significantly “thinned” throughout 2022.
Today, Russia plans to “plug all the holes” at the front just by attracting the mobilized on a massive scale. Therefore, the mobilization will continue not only over the next months, we will face another wave – there will be hundreds of thousands of Russians who will be thrown into the East and South of Ukraine.
Stukanov explained.
He added that by doing this, the Kremlin wants to condense this front and make it impossible for the Armed Forces to advance. In addition, the invaders want to carry out another offensive on the territory of Ukraine.
According to him, ideological the basis of this war for Putin is the Great Patriotic War.
“It’s not for nothing that they present the war against Ukraine as a continuation of the war of the Second World War, when they opposed Nazism. Today, the Kremlin is trying to show Ukrainians as followers of the Nazis,” Stukanov says.
Stukanov commented on Putin’s statement: video
Also, as the analyst noted, during the Second World War, Russia was not alone in the fight against Hitler, then there was a whole coalition, the USA, Great Britain, and other European countries fought on the side of the USSR.
But today these countries are “on the other side of the barricades”, they recognize Russia as a Nazi country. This does not fit into the “Russian picture”, so their own ideology will continue to develop,
Stukanov suggested.
By the way, Putin called the new goal of the war in Ukraine – it turns out that this is an attempt to end the war in the Donbass. The dictator differed in explanations that the territory of Donbass is supposedly the historical territory of Russia. He also made an ambiguous statement – he stressed that representatives of European countries participated in the blockade of Leningrad.
