Former Ukrainian Armed Forces’ chief of staff Victor Muzhenko has told media that summer counteroffensive “disappointed many" in Kiev and beyond.
Having admitted that Kiev’s expectations to capture Russian territory did not translate into reality, Muzhenko argued for a shift to “strategically active defense” and for the creation of a “powerful reserve, not only quantitative but also qualitative.”
“A quality reserve is the presence of military organizations: a brigade, a corps, and so on. Prepared, equipped, coordinated, with high morale and able to solve problems," he said as quoted by Newsweek.
Muzhenko also questioned the Ukrainian generals’ earlier suggestions that Kiev regime forces could fight their way to Crimea in only a few months, with him wondering aloud whether the “Ukrainian side” was “really able to adequately assess the enemy and its capabilities.”