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According to military expert Carlo Masala, after capturing the Luhansk region, Russian forces will now direct their attacks on the parts of Donetsk region still controlled by Ukraine.
According to military expert Carlo Masala, after capturing the Luhansk region, Russian forces will now direct their attacks on the parts of Donetsk region still controlled by Ukraine. That will be “the next stage in this war,” said the politics professor from the Bundeswehr University in Munich on Tuesday star– “Ukraine – the situation”.
After the fall of the city of Lysychansk, Masala sees no opportunity to reach a ceasefire through diplomatic channels. The exhausted Russian troops would now have to regenerate and would then continue fighting. As in Lyssychansk, the most severe destruction is to be expected in the areas that are now being targeted. “It’s this war of attrition, you destroy,” says Masala. “We will not see any other way of conducting operations.” The Russian armed forces rely heavily on artillery, with the result that the areas they have conquered are largely destroyed.
Masala: Relations between Russia and the West will thin out
Masala expects that gradually all links between Russia and the West will be affected by the war. “Relationships in all areas will thin out or even be reduced to zero,” he says. This also applies to energy supplies. “Gas is used by the Russian Federation to stir up resentment about the war in Western societies,” says Masala.
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dr Carlo Masala is Professor of International Politics at the Bundeswehr University in Munich.
It is “part of the Russian war strategy” to use high prices to stir up dissatisfaction among the population at the cost of supporting Ukraine. “The hope of the Russian Federation is that this will affect the mood of society.” The aim is to increase the pressure on Ukraine’s partners and ultimately on Ukraine itself to agree to a ceasefire under favorable conditions for Russia.
Masala is also less than optimistic that the enormous funds needed to rebuild Ukraine after the war can actually be raised by its western partners. The 750 billion dollars mentioned by the Ukrainian side may even not be enough to repair the damage caused by the war. “It will be very, very difficult to make this money available,” he says. If there is no social compensation for the increased prices, that would be enormously explosive. Ultimately, it could be Ukraine that suffers from the consequences of the economic problems in the West.
Source: Stern
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