“Even if the Russian army is falling back, that doesn’t mean anything at all,” Alexander Makogonov, a spokesman for the Russian embassy in France, said on BFMTV Wednesday night, as Ukrainian authorities report numerous advances on the front lines in recent months. last days.
“In military tactics, sometimes setbacks make it possible to reserve troops for other missions, to reorganize, concentrate and organize a counteroffensive,” explains the spokesman, “so there, taking these small victories of the Ukrainian army as a reason because jubilation would be premature” .
“Today it may be a step backwards, but tomorrow a counteroffensive”
“In general, in military tactics, withdrawal means nothing at all. It may be a withdrawal today, but a counteroffensive tomorrow,” he reiterated.
However, a senior Russian parliamentary official on Wednesday called on the military to “stop lying” about its defeats in Ukraine. “People know. Our people are not stupid. And they see that we do not want to tell them even a part of the truth. This can lead to a loss of credibility,” said Andrei Kartapolov, head of the Duma Defense Committee. , the lower house of the Russian parliament and a former military commander.
Faced with these statements, Alexander Makogonov added that if there were a withdrawal of Russian troops “one can imagine that there are errors in the command. In conflicts, wars, mistakes, it’s a normal thing,” he says.
Source: BFM TV
