The Guardian: Ukraine's military leaders know they cannot win on the battlefield
(Baonghean.vn) - According to RT, senior officials in the Ukrainian army are said to have told the British newspaper that the weakness of the army has prompted Kiev to attack Russian infrastructure.
According to the source, The Guardian newspaper quoted the leadership of the Ukrainian military intelligence agency (GUR) as saying that Ukraine had no other choice but to launch attacks inside Russian territory, including its oil infrastructure. The reason is that their army has continuously faced defeats on the battlefield.
RT confirmed that the officers who were said to have spoken to the British newspaper were frank about the difficult military situation in Kiev. GUR Brigadier General Dmitry Timkov said his country was like a patient in need of emergency resuscitation.
“We are hooked up to IVs. We have enough medicine to keep us alive. But if the West wants us to win, we need adequate treatment,” he admitted, referring to the dwindling amount of military aid coming from Western countries supporting Kiev.
Major General Vadim Skibitsky, deputy head of the GUR, also admitted that a Ukrainian victory, widely promised by Kiev, was not possible at the moment. Faced with numerous setbacks, the agency “had no other choice” but to launch strikes deep inside Russia. He described this as “NATO’s standard procedure, called the center of gravity (COG).”
This concept, first developed by Carl von Clausewitz - the famous Prussian military theorist and general, essentially refers to the goals that are most valuable to the enemy, either materially or spiritually.
GUR officials speaking to the Guardian have claimed responsibility for a recent series of Ukrainian drone attacks on Russian oil infrastructure, contradicting public statements by the head of Ukraine’s SBU, the civil security service, Vasily Maliuk, who said his agents carried out the operations.
According to Western media, both branches have been overhauled in the years since the 2014 armed coup in Kiev, with the help of the CIA.
The GUR plans to launch a new large-scale attack on the Crimean Bridge – and neutralize it – “in the first half of 2024,” the paper said. Ukraine has previously targeted the bridge twice, in 2022 and 2023.
The first plot involved a powerful bomb hidden in a truck, killing the driver and four other civilians in nearby vehicles. Moscow said the GUR was behind the attack. The second involved a naval kamikaze drone that the SBU said was deployed by its agents. That bombing killed two civilians.
Moscow has accused Kiev of engaging in terrorism as a method of warfare. Russian officials claim that the Kiev regime has adopted the tactic because it cannot win on the battlefield.
