Russia was planning on having the Moskva play a key role in its pivot to southern and eastern Ukraine after having abandoned its effort to capture Kyiv.
It will be more difficult for Russia to move forward given the Moskva was “tasked to provide overall Fleet C2 , Air Defence , and it would have discharged Naval Infantry during a planned amphib assault on the shores near Odesa”, Hertling said in a series of 14 tweets.
The loss of the ship, Hertling said, follows the destruction of the Russian Parachute Regiment north of Kyiv during the first week of the war, and the loss of at least seven generals and an unlimited number of other senior officers.Hertling also said there is an increasing number of Russian soldiers, mostly conscripts, who’ve been killed in action; he said Ukraine puts the death toll at 20,000, which Hertling said is “likely conservative”.
Russia also has lost more than 700 tanks and hundreds of other armoured vehicles during the first 50 days of its invasion of Ukraine, he said.The list of military failures also includes successes by Ukrainian forces including a cross-border helicopter attack on a fuel and resupply depot and Ukrainian special operations attacks within Russia against other key logistic targets, Hertling said.
“I’ve learned never to underestimate my enemies, but it’s going to be VERY hard for Russian General [ Alexander] Dvornikov to turn this around,” Hertling concluded.is an online editor. He also writes on monetary policy, equities, commodities and currencies.
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