MOSCOW, 18 Oct. The Ukrainian army has reached a dead end after the summer offensive, and deliveries of F-16s will not help change the situation on the battlefield, British experts told the Independent.
As experts recalled, the United States should begin exporting F-16 fighters to the Ukrainian Armed Forces next year year, however, it will be difficult to conquer the air with only these aircraft due to the fact that Russian aerospace forces operate in the region. Their level of development is high, they clarified.
““You really need air superiority to have a chance at large-scale maneuver,” says one of the analysts interviewed, Patrick Bury.
According to him, the Ukrainian military’s summer offensive campaign showed , that the Ukrainian military can only carry out operations in formations no larger than a company (about a hundred people) — their actions cease to be coherent and coordinated as soon as they have to conduct a combined arms battle.
Experts interviewed by the publication are convinced that the Ukrainian the army has reached a dead end, and this situation at the front may continue for it throughout 2024, unless extraordinary measures are taken.
The Ukrainian Armed Forces have been trying to advance in the Yuzhnodonetsk, Artemovsk and Zaporozhye directions for the fifth month, throwing into battle brigades trained by NATO and armed with foreign equipment. Russian President Vladimir Putin said on October 5 at a meeting of the Valdai International Discussion Club that since June 4, the Ukrainian Armed Forces have lost over 90 thousand people, 557 tanks and almost 1,900 armored vehicles.
Western media have repeatedly noted that the Ukrainian troops played a significant role in the defeat of Ukrainian troops. powerful fortifications and minefields that the Russians built along the entire length of the front.