Mad Vlad Putin could be facing an invasion nightmare.
He has’ no good options’ after an offensive by Ukraine inflicted Russia’s most serious military defeat on the battlefield since the Second World War.
Military expert JUSTIN BRONK, a research fellow at London’s Royal United Services Institute, has analysed the situation as Ukrainian troops pile pressure on retreating Russian forces.
Ukraine wants to hold onto its new momentum amid hopes that a turning point in the war has finally been reached.
The counter-offensive left the Kremlin struggling for a response to its largest military defeat in Ukraine since Russia pulled back from areas near Kyiv.
It comes after Russia’s state media war correspondent Alexander Sladkov accidentally revealed the scale of their losses in Ukraine, telling the Kremlin-run Rossiya 1 news channel that a ‘huge number of people’ have died. Mr Bronk said Ukraine has ‘baited Russia into accepting an attritional battle in a very militarily disadvantageous position’, adding that Russia ‘will be hard pressed simply to avoid any more disasters before winter’.
The expert, who also gave his analysis to MailOnline in a video, said it had been ‘one of the most successful counter-offensives we’ve seen in modern history in terms of territory gained over a given speed of advance’.
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