Gernot Kramper (star) He avoids all demanding operations, which have not worked so far. / After the Russians failed to make any headway either in front of Kharkov or in front of Kyiv, they had the ability to properly pull the emergency brake. // Ukraine has not yet found a recipe for this.
Hendrik Holdmann (stern) After setbacks at the beginning of the war – even with considerable losses, at least in part – Russia now seems to have the upper hand again. How did Putin do that exactly? What levers did he set in motion?
Gernot Kramper (star) It has to be said that the entire attack on the Ukraine was met by such a blatant misjudgment of a political, psychological and military nature on the Russian side that, one must say in advance, one is so independent of our point of view towards this aggression that that militarily – that will go down in history as an example of how not to do it at all, a big failure. Conversely, however, one has to say: after the Russians made no progress either in front of Kharkov or in front of Kyiv, they had the ability to properly pull the emergency brake and completely change their plans. It is also a great mental ability to recognize what I actually intended – or what Putin intended – what I actually intended. It all went wrong. My super military that I enjoyed so much is being shot up here, not achieving the achievements. I have big losses and most of them then tend to practically say: No, keep it up. We just stuff more stuff in. And it has to be said that the Russians have practically completely reversed the trend. They went back from Kharkov and Kyiv. That’s also a psychological achievement. You’ve now lost a tremendous number of soldiers and the like. And that’s kind of a defeat. Well, you can’t get away with that and have concentrated completely on the Donbass. They have better supply lines there, they also have more sympathy among the population and the front length is much smaller. That’s very important. Because both sides use very few soldiers per kilometer compared to the wars of the Second World War, above all for the cities. It’s not like there’s a checkpoint on every corner or anything, but there’s also an awful lot of empty space. And it’s all more focused now. And you have to say that the Russian commander-in-chief – he’s doing a good job. And he avoids all demanding operations, which have not worked so far, and tries to give the enemy no chance. They advance, to put it bluntly, they’d rather advance 500 meters a week than fall on their faces and advance five kilometers ahead. It really is a snail’s pace war. That doesn’t always work. We’ve also seen these pictures of the river crossings in the north, that is, they cost the Russian side a lot of losses. But on the whole it works. Above all, because the front moves very slowly and the enemy is being worked on non-stop with artillery. And Ukraine has not yet found a recipe for this and it is indeed difficult to find a recipe.
Source: Stern
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