According to military expert Carlo Masala, the Russian leadership has to constantly adjust its war goals because the armed forces cannot achieve them.
According to military expert Carlo Masala, the Russian leadership has to constantly adjust its war goals because the armed forces cannot achieve them. “You can see the implicit admission of the Russian armed forces that they are too bad to hold all positions,” says the politics professor from the Bundeswehr University in Munich in the stern podcast “Ukraine – the situation”. Masala says Russian troops “fall far short of the standards we have adopted for Russian armed forces”.
As far as performance is concerned, “we were substantially wrong”. Because of the problems, the army is now concentrating on eastern Ukraine and giving up other positions, such as around Kharkiv.
