Army General explained the slow pace of the offensive of the Russian army in Ukraine

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During the implementation of the special operation on the territory of Ukraine, the Russian army is forced to act cautiously, abandoning the high pace of advancement. The former head of the Russian General Staff, General Yuri Baluyevsky, spoke about the reasons for such actions.

The Armed Forces of Ukraine and nationalist battalions often equip firing points in residential areas of settlements, thus hiding behind the civilian population. In such difficult conditions, having abandoned active military operations in cities, Baluyevsky proposes to attract special units - this will help to avoid great destruction and death of the civilian population.



If it had been a classic military operation, the pace of the offensive would have been different. The task of the Russian troops is to preserve both the civilian population and civilian infrastructure

- said the general in an interview on RT.


Complicating the actions of the Russian troops and the betrayal of the Ukrainian urban elites, who previously promised to assist Moscow in taking control of settlements, and then betrayed the Russian Federation - about this earlier рассказал in his video journalist Yuriy Podolyaka.

Meanwhile, on Monday, March 14, the delegations of Poland, the Czech Republic and Slovenia announced about further military support for the Ukrainian side during a meeting with Vladimir Zelensky. The need to provide humanitarian assistance to the Ukrainian population was also voiced.
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  1. Ulysses
    Ulysses
    +1
    16 March 2022 18: 29
    If it had been a classic military operation, the pace of the offensive would have been different. The task of the Russian troops is to preserve both the civilian population and civilian infrastructure

    - said the general in an interview on RT.

    I don’t know how in terms of the pace of the offensive, but Ukrainian cities could look completely different even now.

    If anyone has not yet seen an alternative option for "liberating the city in the American way", look at the photos of the destroyed Raqqa.
    By the way, the Americans with their proxies "fought" for the city four months, slowly leveling the ground block by block.
    Together with the entire civilian population.

    1. Observer2014
      Observer2014
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      16 March 2022 20: 32
      I don’t know how in terms of the pace of the offensive, but Ukrainian cities could look completely different even now.

      With flowers and incredible inspiration even at the beginning of 2015 .. Here, understand me as you wish.
      1. Ulysses
        Ulysses
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        16 March 2022 20: 55
        With flowers and incredible inspiration even at the beginning of 2015 .. Here, understand me as you wish.

        You can break spears for a long time about what could be.
        The reformatting of Ukraine did not begin 8 years ago.
        Perhaps the southeast would have accepted us, but then what?

        Can you explain to me how ready we were then for military operations in economic, political, military terms?
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  2. silinigo_2
    silinigo_2
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    16 March 2022 19: 48
    Comrade General .. Wouldn’t it be time for you, like Admiral Popov, to leave !! You .. brought this to power! And are you muttering something else? Take off your shoulder straps !!
  3. silinigo_2
    silinigo_2
    -4
    16 March 2022 20: 00
    I don’t understand. Who is minus me? Have you seen these ..generalev-admirals live? Creatures for sale .. Still those .. Although I personally owe Admiral Popov my life.
  4. Mikhail L.
    Mikhail L.
    +1
    16 March 2022 20: 02
    ... It's hard to argue with a professional, but logically: with a quick advance, there will be more civilian casualties, but within ... a shorter time!
    ... How not cynical: the amount will not change!
  5. cooper
    cooper
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    16 March 2022 22: 01
    Judging by the latest media reports, everything is not so good - something dubious is happening with regards to some negotiations and agreements .. But it was stated - only complete denazification and demilitarization of Ukraine, inevitable retribution against war and Nazi criminals .. Russia is ready to turn on back??
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  7. Roma Phil
    Roma Phil
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    16 March 2022 22: 45
    Yes. Unfortunately, civilians are dying.
    But the paradox is that the longer the capture of any settlement (for example, Mariupol) is delayed, the more civilian casualties.
    And the civilian population does not care whose actions their compatriots and fellow countrymen die, from the Russian military or from the actions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and Azov, for them the Russians will still be to blame for this.
    So it turns out that it is a pity for the victims among the laity, but the offensive must be carried out more intensively. If only there were enough forces and military-technical means.
  8. Atos
    Atos
    +1
    16 March 2022 23: 38
    I don't understand why Russia sent ground troops there (at least so quickly); During the attack on Yugoslavia in 1999, the Americans did not stand on the positions of the Serbs at all, but achieved their goal with virtually no losses.
    1. Roma Phil
      Roma Phil
      +1
      16 March 2022 23: 54
      I am also asking myself these same questions.
      Of course, I’m not a strategist and I’m not wiser with the experience of this old general, but now they destroyed 180 mercenaries and weapons sent by the West with high-precision missiles at the Yavorov training ground. They say their accuracy is 7 meters. This is good accuracy.
      It’s probably the same way that they could first throw all the training grounds, accumulations of military equipment and manpower of Ukraine, first with high-precision weapons, and then, leaving the Armed Forces of Ukraine without weapons and thinned ranks of the military, already bring in Russian ground troops.
      But maybe I don't understand something? I fully admit it.
  9. Moscow
    Moscow
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    17 March 2022 00: 52
    If the USSR would not have taken Berlin, but would have started chasing German troops around Europe and every day declaring negotiations with Hitler, we would have ended the war in 1946-1947 or would have fought to this day. Now the Russian troops are engaged in provincial battles of local importance, forgetting about the capital - Kyiv. Moreover, Russian politicians declare every day and wait for negotiations with the Kiev regime, the US or the EU. None of the Ukrainians ever heard that the Russians would not leave the Russians in Ukraine and would not leave a month after the end of the special operation. We constantly make excuses that we had to start this operation. The political work of the Ministry of Defense, the FSB and the GRU of the Russian Federation with the local population and the elite is not visible. It all boils down to humanitarian aid, alas. They will eat it and forget it. This does not give rise to local confidence and their desire to fight for a new government. Life after the defeat of Kyiv is not clear to anyone. In Ukraine, they believe that Russia is losing and will leave. From the media of the Russian Federation it is not clear that Russia is winning, although this is true. The main thing is that this is not visible primarily to Ukrainians. Something is not right in the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation and the Presidential Administration in covering the special operation. We need victory, success and clear goals. We need Russian TV throughout Ukraine, active informatics and clear support and formation of pro-Russian forces on the ground. But it's all kind of blurry. Everyone in Ukraine is looking, alas, at Kyiv, at their impudent media and Internet attacks. Maybe I'm wrong. But...?
    1. Mikhail L.
      Mikhail L.
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      17 March 2022 09: 45
      Do you propose to take Kyiv?
      Perhaps from a military point of view, this is correct.
      But it is inevitable to destroy ... the mother of Russian cities, like Berlin?
      1. VladZ
        VladZ
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        18 March 2022 17: 58
        First of all, I would stop broadcasting Ukrainian TV, from where false but pathos and patriotic propaganda is now pouring through like a river. At least by destroying cell towers, or maybe a partial disruption of Kyiv's power supply.
  10. Yuriy88
    Yuriy88
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    17 March 2022 08: 13
    the general may not be so "poetic-figurative" but he says everything true! "And who needs them" fast pace of advance and urgent victory "?? Who needs to prove what?! teach our guys an example! Otherwise, just shut up! (That’s me to some commentators!).. We don’t storm cities with heavy ones and don’t trample them into the sand, because we don’t need Ukraine like ballast, and the more we destroy there, the stronger it is hangs around our necks (just consumerist, as before!!!) The task is to knock out teeth, knock out equipment, manpower, the entire military infrastructure and leave on our terms (neutrality!) .. Who wants to stick to Russia, who doesn’t want to let on their own .., but friendship apart!
  11. trampoline instructor
    trampoline instructor
    +2
    17 March 2022 08: 36
    Russia's tactics when taking cities: to surround from three sides and leave a small corridor so that before the start of hostilities everyone (civilian and military) could get out through this loophole. When the assault begins, it is already too late to run, and the safety of lives is coming out in no way and by no one is guaranteed.

    https://vz.ru/world/2022/3/16/1148823.html
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    1. Mikhail L.
      Mikhail L.
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      18 March 2022 08: 33
      ... Is it possible to link to the source of information? ;-(
  13. Awaz
    Awaz
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    17 March 2022 19: 40
    so from the first days I said that if they made a lightning-fast breakthrough of the defense near Donetsk-Lugansk with the encirclement of the APU grouping there, most likely now it would not be necessary to wage heavy protracted battles with frontal breaches of the defense. Most likely, mass surrenders would have gone. This would have really knocked down both the regime and the endurance of the troops in general, and most likely now they would simply have simply crushed individual foci. Any other option is a protracted war, which we are now witnessing. It is obvious that they did not calculate their own forces and the resistance of the enemy, and simply made and are making stupid and unforgivable mistakes.
    Long before the events, even in propaganda programs, not even experts assumed that it would not be like in Crimea, the troops would resist and the population would help them, and there would be partisanship, and even assumed that the Armed Forces of Ukraine (that is, Nazi battalions) would use terrorist methods, that is hide behind the population of cities.
    Talk about everything going according to plan and that it was intended that way, well, I don’t know, if this is so, then I don’t even know how to comment on it. We here do not have all the information and plans of the General Staff, and it is difficult to evaluate only on the basis of visible results. Again, if you saw that it would be difficult, maybe it should have been done differently?