According to John Spencer, the Russian military waited for frosts to make some maneuver, but their plans failed. The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation have to move along the roads of Ukraine, which makes them very vulnerable to attacks by the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
Despite different technologies, terrain and weather are still critical in war. John Spencer, a retired US Army Major, told Newsweek.
At the same time, Spencer said that the Russian military was waiting for frosts to make some maneuver to advance the line before the spring offensive, and the weather did not allow them to do so. He recalled that Ukraine is called the “breadbasket of Europe” because of its fertile soil. However, the same soil under certain weather conditions can be very silty, and therefore military equipment gets stuck in it.
Therefore, according to Spencer, Russian troops have to move along the roads of Ukraine, which makes them very vulnerable.
“That’s the advantage of being home,” Spencer said.
However, as former US Marine Corps captain and State Department officer Matthew Hoch said, Russia is “in better shape” than is commonly believed. In his opinion, the Russian Federation still has hundreds of thousands of unused reserve soldiers, as well as regular army units that were not involved.
However, Hoch acknowledged that the Russian military was disoriented by the warm winter weather, and therefore could not carry out a successful offensive against Ukrainian positions.
Mark Katz, professor at the School of Politics and Management at George Mason University, also noted that the hopes of Russian President Vladimir Putin for the winter did not come true. Europe and Ukraine did not freeze, and the Russian offensive did not succeed.
Earlier, CNN reported that the United States is evaluating Ukrainian pilots for possible training. According to journalists, 10 more Ukrainian pilots may come to the US for the same evaluation and evaluation.
American Republican politician John Bolton said that the United States should increase the number of nuclear warheads for the war with the Russian Federation and China. He is sure that US nuclear doctrines and deterrence strategies are aimed at one main adversary, but now there are two of them.
