NATO indicated that in the coming months Russia will continue with a strategy focused on mobilizing large amounts of Soviet era tanks and materialin addition to more recruitment campaigns, while kyiv will focus on the “quality” of Western military systems and trust the training received by its troops.
“Russia is in the 15th month of what they thought would be a three-day war,” said the chairman of the NATO Military Committee, Dutch Admiral Rob Bauer, after the meeting of allied defense chiefs of staff, in which analyzed the future of the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine.
In this sense, he explained that the Russian Army uses old military systems such as the T-54 tanks, manufactured after World War II, to make up for the lack of quality in their offensives with quantity.
“The Russians are targeting numbers and large numbers of recruits, who are not well trained, with old and less accurate material,” he argued, while Ukraine relies on Western military systems handed over by NATO allies for its operations. and the training his troops receive outside of Ukraine. “This is the big difference in the coming months,” she predicted.
“Any war after five or six days becomes a war of logistics. This is what we see in Ukraine”, explained Bauer to insist that the Russian strategy responds to the Moscow’s inability to produce the materiel it needs on the battlefield.
Military plans against Russia
During the meeting, the allied military leaders discussed the military plans that NATO is working on, of which the Dutch admiral highlighted that “for the first time since the Cold War” they focus on specific threats, such as Russia or terrorist groupsTherefore, they are more closely linked to future investments and the development of European armies.
That is why in NATO they link even more if possible these plans to the commitment of the members to reach two percent in military spending, which they will reaffirm during the Vilnius summit in July. “That is why it is important that they receive support both at the military and political levels,” Bauer said of the new regional plans.
NATO’s plans will entail have more troops alert throughout the alliancewith new requirements for allies on the number and types of equipment in all regions and scopes.
But as the head of the NATO Military Committee has stressed, preparation and effectiveness “go far beyond numbers.” “You need speed and scale, as well as flexibility and a wide range of capabilities. That is why we are also reinforcing our command and control capabilities, in direct correspondence with the new force requirements,” he stated.
(With information from EuropaPress)
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