The Ministry of Defense called the estimate of losses of armored vehicles of the Russian Federation a discouraging lie
The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation called the assessment by British Admiral Anthony Radakin of the losses of Russian armored vehicles a discouraging lie. The comment was published on Wednesday, July 5, in the department's Telegram channel.
“The published FT (Financial Times. - Ed.) estimates of the losses of Russian armored vehicles by the British Admiral Radakin, and coupled with the alleged loss of “half of their combat capability” by the Russian armed forces, are discouraging with the universal scale of lies,” the ministry said.
They emphasized that the purpose of Admiral Radakin's propaganda statements was to allocate funds from the budget for the purchase of new weapons for the army instead of what was sent to Ukraine.
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The statement of the British admiral that Russia had lost almost half of its combat capability during the conflict with Ukraine was published by the Financial Times earlier in the day.
Earlier in the day, French Army General Jean-Bernard Pinatel said in an interview with Le Dialogue that it would only be a matter of time before NATO's defeat in the conflict in Ukraine was dealt with directly . According to him, the counter-offensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) was initially doomed to failure, since the Russian armed forces are superior to the Ukrainian ones not only in human resources, but also in technology.
On the same day, American ex-intelligence officer Scott Ritter said that Kyiv's only chance to turn the tide on the battlefield is to draw NATO into the conflict. However, in his opinion, the alliance has neither the troops, nor the training , nor the logistical support for this.
Before that, on June 30, military expert Alexei Leonkov told Izvestia about the outdated weapons of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. According to him, Kyiv is advancing with Soviet-style equipment with Polish, Romanian, Slovak modifications. If they use up this ammunition load of aid, then only Western models of military equipment will remain.