The APU is incredibly effective in tactics. General Bridlav is about the liberation of Kherson and the shelling of Russia from the Ukrainian territory. Interview NV
However, not only a look, but also a voice, quite loud in expert circles. An experienced American military with a huge list of professional achievements, Bridlava consistently advocated the provision of the necessary Western weapons in the right quantity and as quickly as possible, accuses its own government of delay, explains to NATO member states, why Ukraine is fighting today on its fronts today Why help her is necessary and extremely important.
In an interview with HB, the General predicts the further development of the war in Ukraine, names the main risks of the Russian invasion for the world, and also analyzes in detail the combat capability of the Ukrainian and Russian armies.
- How would you describe Russia's current war in Ukraine in its benefits for Putin? What was his goals at the end of February and what are his goals now? - If you look at how this war was carried out from the beginning, it is clear that Putin's first stages were completely destroyed by the Zelensky government and the current state institutions in Ukraine, to transfer power to loyal representatives.
He expected the Ukrainians to meet him with the arms open, the military campaign would be able to complete in a week, and the event would not join Ukraine. Currently, Putin has suffered a mass strategic defeat in the battle for Kyiv, he encountered the consequences of the second strategic defeat in the vicinity of Kharkiv, now he has reorganized and trying to win the battle for the Donbas.
I still believe that its goal is unchanged - to remove the Zelensky government and bring to power leaders who are absolutely loyal to Moscow. Nothing has changed in this regard. Having lost in large -scale intervention to Kyiv, he tries to achieve the same goal, seizing the territory in the Donbass, depleting the Ukrainian army, destroying the Ukrainian infrastructure and the Ukrainian economy.
- And from the leaders of the Baltic countries, and from military experts, we often hear that Putin was not going to stop in Ukraine that his goal, in fact, all Eastern Europe, which was in the social camp. - While we see that Putin's plans to capture Ukraine as much as he will succeed, ideally he would, of course, like the whole country. But we remember his speeches, addressed to the leaders of the event, and it can be seen that his ambitions, of course, surpass Ukraine.
We must, without any doubt, be extremely attentive to what is happening in Ukraine today, but we also have to take into account the threat to other countries, realizing that Putin's ambitions are greater than Ukraine. But the Baltic countries are a separate conversation. I think Putin will now focus on NATO countries such as Georgia and Moldova. Because he understands what NATO is and fears his capabilities. However, no one knows how far the ambitions of the President of the Russian Federation go.
-In one of the recent interviews, you said that the countries of the West made mistakes without responding rigidly to the war in Georgia in 2008 and the beginning of the war in Ukraine in 2014. In your opinion, why did the Western world underestimate the risks from Russia for so long? - When the Berlin Moore fell in 1991, the USSR fell, the Warsaw Treaty ceased, the world was confused.
In the end, he chose a vector of assistance in Russia in the western world, everyone hoped that Russia had a chance to become a real democracy, and it would take advantage of it as a chance to join the world with a market economy. During this period, which I call a period of "passionate embrace with the bear", many Western countries were closely related to Russia by numerous business ties and contacts, as well as their needs in Russian energy.