The American general called the next main goal of the Russian army in Ukraine

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The former commander of NATO forces in Europe, American Wesley Clark, named the next main goal of the RF Armed Forces in conducting the NVO in Ukraine and the main tasks that Moscow set for itself in Europe as a whole. A retired US Army general spoke about this in an interview with the American television channel CNN.


According to Clark, the most important thing for Russia is to take control of the city of Dnepr (Dnepropetrovsk). This will encircle and then destroy the AFU grouping in the Donbas, thereby depriving Ukraine of the most combat-ready forces. Now the Russian army is regrouping, but its offensive in this direction will soon begin.

What's next: Russians north and south of the Dnieper. He will be the next key target. If they can reach the Dnieper, they will cut off the Ukrainian forces that are holding back the armies of Donbass.

- he said.

Clark believes that the ultimate goal of the Kremlin is to establish total control over all Eastern European countries, destroy the NATO military-political bloc and withdraw the United States from Europe. The general stressed that Russian President Vladimir Putin is playing a certain game with the West. He pretends that he is only interested in Ukraine. However, it is not. Moscow wants to get much more. She is trying through a military conflict with Kiev to force the Western countries to retreat.

Therefore, according to the ex-commander, Ukraine needs more help. Moreover, to supply not only Stingers and Javelins, but also heavy armored vehicles, aircraft, artillery, ammunition and fuel.

Ukraine is just a current battlefield. But, if the Ukrainians defeat Russia on this battlefield, everything will change. So the best way to protect NATO, the best way to protect the international system, is to give Ukraine the help it needs to deal with Russia on the battlefield.

Clark concluded.
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  1. borisvt Offline borisvt
    borisvt (boris) April 5 2022 13: 09
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    Hmm.
    Our overburdened leadership will not risk, I think, to smack a dagger on Rzeszow, but it would be necessary. After speaking to the nation and designate the next pentagonal goal.
    All these retirees and demon-possessed congressmen would crap their pants on calling for more, well, clarity would have already arisen instead of this strange situation now, damn it
  2. Krapilin Offline Krapilin
    Krapilin (Victor) April 5 2022 13: 19
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    Clark believes that the ultimate goal of the Kremlin is to establish total control over all Eastern European countries, destroy the NATO military-political bloc and withdraw the United States from Europe.

    General! And why does Russia need all the above nonsense "for control"? For this to happen, a nuclear war is necessary.
    And not in Europe - but between Russia and the United States. Is that what you want, general?
  3. Afinogen Offline Afinogen
    Afinogen (Afinogen) April 5 2022 13: 25
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    Moreover, to supply not only Stingers and Javelins, but also heavy armored vehicles, aircraft, artillery, ammunition and fuel.

    As far as fuel goes, it's unlikely. The EU countries and America themselves suffer from fuel shortages. They will soon go around the world. Yes, and the planes, as you put them on them, you need to be able to fly, and there are no more pilots left. This is not a gun load and shoot.
    1. Vdars Offline Vdars
      Vdars (Victor) April 5 2022 14: 41
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      Although you also need to be able to shoot from a gun, especially an unfamiliar one, you need to not only be able to "load and shoot", but also use shooting tables and be able to set an unfamiliar sight. It is extremely rare to shoot direct fire in modern warfare!
  4. dub0vitsky Offline dub0vitsky
    dub0vitsky (Victor) April 5 2022 14: 49
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    Quote from borisvt
    Hmm.
    Our overburdened leadership will not risk, I think, to smack a dagger on Rzeszow, but it would be necessary. After speaking to the nation and designate the next pentagonal goal.
    All these retirees and demon-possessed congressmen would crap their pants on calling for more, well, clarity would have already arisen instead of this strange situation now, damn it

    Some need to be carefully explained that if your house was attacked, and you shot the attackers behind the fence of the house, you will be to blame, and you will serve your sentence. But if in the house itself, then you will be right. What can you do, brains are needed for such an understanding. Who prevents the same cargo from bang on the territory of Ukraine? In the train, and somewhere else, and on the bridge? By making it impossible to move for a LONG time, and without hitting the accomplice. without getting involved in a new, very disturbing international scandal? If, suddenly, the refugees want to run away from the war, no one prevents them from crossing by rural roads, on a pontoon bridge, and beyond. for the collapse to go even to hell in the middle of nowhere. Will it be done humanely? Humanely. Civilians are not affected. But the very fact of the destruction of a section of the road will greatly arouse the desire to get off.
  5. dub0vitsky Offline dub0vitsky
    dub0vitsky (Victor) April 5 2022 15: 01
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    Quote: Krapilin
    Clark believes that the ultimate goal of the Kremlin is to establish total control over all Eastern European countries, destroy the NATO military-political bloc and withdraw the United States from Europe.

    General! And why does Russia need all the above nonsense "for control"? For this to happen, a nuclear war is necessary.
    And not in Europe - but between Russia and the United States. Is that what you want, general?

    What if you think about it? Here, just like that, sit down, look at various information, look through modern history. Since the all-powerful NATO guaranteed help against Putin, and NOTHING could, the question to all those present is how omnipotent is NATO? And is it worth it to be in it, having the risk of getting hit in the teeth, not having a REAL, and not the promised roof? Erdogan already somehow stood in the reception room of the Viceroy, begging for protection on Earth, after the crime with our SU-24? Got a clear explanation. that the salvation of the drowning is the work of the drowning themselves. With Georgia, have they already forgotten how this story ended with promises of endless assistance? And in Syria? Well, and so on. by the list. Turn your forehead on a nuclear cudgel in the name of interests, is it really the United States? And, isn't it better to behave like Finland, which has not joined for decades, Sweden, and other not very loyal subjects? It was explained to them that we are not aiming anything at THEIR cities. And it worked.
    1. Krapilin Offline Krapilin
      Krapilin (Victor) April 5 2022 17: 02
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      Dear dub0vitsky (Victor)!

      If you "think", then - after thinking - tell us how you can get rid of NATO in Europe without getting rid of the United States in the world?

      In 2014, the APU could be "sprayed" without problems. The past 8 years have made the Armed Forces of Ukraine a problem for the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation.

      What does it mean that NATO "will not take" the Armed Forces of Ukraine as an "example for itself"?
      If you think...
  6. EVYN WIXH Offline EVYN WIXH
    EVYN WIXH (EVYN WIXH) April 5 2022 15: 05
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    Now all of Eastern Europe will begin to shove old Soviet equipment to Ukraine, and there is not so little of it there. They have enough people - mobilization. Fighting spirit is on the rise. Not so simple. On the contrary, the grouping of the RF Armed Forces is limited in its capabilities. There are not enough people. Yes, and the equipment is knocked out and develops a resource, so we can get to the use of the T-62 and BTR-60. There, even before mobilization is not so far, and this is a completely different alignment.
  7. dub0vitsky Offline dub0vitsky
    dub0vitsky (Victor) April 5 2022 19: 44
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    Quote: Krapilin
    Dear dub0vitsky (Victor)!

    If you "think", then - after thinking - tell us how you can get rid of NATO in Europe without getting rid of the United States in the world?

    In 2014, the APU could be "sprayed" without problems. The past 8 years have made the Armed Forces of Ukraine a problem for the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation.

    What does it mean that NATO "will not take" the Armed Forces of Ukraine as an "example for itself"?
    If you think...

    Do you consider NATO a monolith? The USSR was a monolith as long as the brutal vertical of power worked. As soon as it weakened ... And this is with a common economy, a common industrial potential, and with contradictions between subjects suppressed from above. What do you observe in NATO? Common, but torn apart by quotas and competition. With a scarce raw material base. Collected by shouts and demands from across the lake. What has NATO REALLY done to protect its breeding members? Not by article 5, but by repulsing SOMEONE'S AGGRESSION? Who is REALLY threatening them? Are they such idiots? what nobody understands. There was the Warsaw Pact - NATO, it seems, was justified. Don't they understand that pushing them across the lake to our borders is FRAUGHTER? The desire to curry favor, yes, but not the desire to get out first on the barricades.
    year 2014. There was NOTHING that really frightened all these "partners". There was an army. Like everyone else, it’s rather bad and not modernly armed. And the carrier of losses in approximately that statistical norm is 3/1, as the coming one. They have 200 thousand and we have 600 thousand. Would this ratio suit you? To at least understand something, you need to be in the know. And not from the pages of a lousy press, but from primary sources. Today, we inflict the main losses not with AK assault rifles, but with Calibers and much more, new ones.
    1. Krapilin Offline Krapilin
      Krapilin (Victor) April 5 2022 23: 20
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      Dear dub0vitsky (Victor)!

      In Russia, between the people and the oligarchs today is also "not a monolith." And this is in the conditions of the third world war with the first theater of war in this war, which is now in Ukraine.
      This is first…

      Secondly, Russia has not yet faced NATO directly. Why caps prematurely "throw"?

      Thirdly, in order to at least “understand something”, you would have to be in Crimea in the spring of 2014. Personally. And to see how in the first days some “armed” units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were blocked by practically unarmed Crimeans. Not to mention the then also not "unarmed" SBU and police. There are such concepts as tactical and strategic initiative. At that moment, not for the Crimeans, but for the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation ... these initiatives "were not given a go." But they received two "Minsk" and, as a result, motivated, well-trained and soundly armed (except for the fleet, aviation and missiles) of the Armed Forces of Ukraine by 2022.
      And as the facts show in the same Mariupol, the effectiveness of missiles and aircraft is zero.
      Is there anything to think about?
  8. dub0vitsky Offline dub0vitsky
    dub0vitsky (Victor) April 5 2022 20: 01
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    Quote: EVYN WIXH
    Now all of Eastern Europe will begin to shove old Soviet equipment to Ukraine, and there is not so little of it there. They have enough people - mobilization. Fighting spirit is on the rise. Not so simple. On the contrary, the grouping of the RF Armed Forces is limited in its capabilities. There are not enough people. Yes, and the equipment is knocked out and develops a resource, so we can get to the use of the T-62 and BTR-60. There, even before mobilization is not so far, and this is a completely different alignment.

    High spirit of resistance. Especially given the fact that about 5 million fled, and even more premature in the government established a law on the punishment of those who went abroad for 15 years. Which, of course, will make them come back. Immediately. Judging by chat roulette, where they are brave and heroes, eating popcorn, and reclining on sofas, of course. They'll rip everyone. Look at the documentary footage, in the same networks, not in the media, corrupt and regulated, but filmed on phones, by the same residents. How ordinary people behave.
  9. Magmax Offline Magmax
    Magmax (magmax) April 5 2022 22: 59
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    Wesley Clark is not very smart,
    1. Magmax Offline Magmax
      Magmax (magmax) April 5 2022 23: 00
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      And he use to work for the Ukrainians.
  10. dub0vitsky Offline dub0vitsky
    dub0vitsky (Victor) April 5 2022 23: 32
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    Quote: Krapilin
    Dear dub0vitsky (Victor)!

    In Russia, between the people and the oligarchs today is also "not a monolith." And this is in the conditions of the third world war with the first theater of war in this war, which is now in Ukraine.
    This is first…

    Secondly, Russia has not yet faced NATO directly. Why caps prematurely "throw"?

    Thirdly, in order to at least “understand something”, you would have to be in Crimea in the spring of 2014. Personally. And to see how in the first days some “armed” units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were blocked by practically unarmed Crimeans. Not to mention the then also not "unarmed" SBU and police. There are such concepts as tactical and strategic initiative. At that moment, not for the Crimeans, but for the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation ... these initiatives "were not given a go." But they received two "Minsk" and, as a result, motivated, well-trained and soundly armed (except for the fleet, aviation and missiles) of the Armed Forces of Ukraine by 2022.
    And as the facts show in the same Mariupol, the effectiveness of missiles and aircraft is zero.
    Is there anything to think about?

    There can be no monolith between the moneybags and the common people, by definition. different goals and objectives. But, in the state. where there is a vertical of power, there will be no open conflict. The seven bankers are broken, and those who have the loot do what they are offered. They pay to the budget, and for this they are allowed to have more than a decent profit. Where the oligarch rules the army, the writing of laws, this is not and cannot be. A crowd of oligarchs and different countries, torn apart by contradictions and competition, all the more, will not be able to agree among themselves. NATO did not collide with Russia, to be more precise. You reverse your expression. Because what remains of NATO is a vitrified desert. Of course, we are also deep out of the buoy, but they have something to lose. A grace that we have never had. The effectiveness of weapons is determined not by the place of application, but by the degree of fanaticism. And, finally, in vain to conduct a conversation in a circle. You are not reading the previous one. and repeat that politics is the art of the POSSIBLE, I will not. And that in 2014 we did not have the trump cards that we have now.
    1. Krapilin Offline Krapilin
      Krapilin (Victor) April 6 2022 16: 35
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      Dear dub0vitsky (Victor)!

      The issue of trump cards is when playing the “card fool”.
      In the absence of a clearly stated goal of the NWO - without these encrypted "demilitarization" and "denazification" - NWO turns not into the art of the possible, but into the bad taste of the lost.

      You were told to what "territorial limit" in the vastness of Ukraine effective Russian weapons will spread?

      They tell you that fascists, drug addicts and neo-Nazis are in power in Kyiv, but they are negotiating with them - and this reduces the success of effective weapons on the battlefield ... to zero in terms of declared goals.

      A direct confrontation with NATO is a glassy territory from Spain to the Urals.
      And what does it mean - only "they have something to lose"?

      And finally - now on the territory of Ukraine there is not a confrontation between "politicians", but a confrontation between civilizations.
    2. Storm_2022 Offline Storm_2022
      Storm_2022 (Storm _2022) April 11 2022 21: 20
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      The seven bankers are broken

      But the Nabibulin region is flourishing, and it is still unknown what is worse!!!
      How many more trillions will she take out, not to Europe, but to China ...
  11. Neville Stator Offline Neville Stator
    Neville Stator (Neville Stator) April 6 2022 16: 57
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    Mr. Clark is fantasizing, let's be specific and real. Russia must secure Kherson at any cost. Collapse the Dombas front and punish the economic and industrial infrastructure of Ukraine, including bridges, roads, railways, etc. When the Ukrainian economy is on the verge of collapse, it will subscribe to Moscow's dictate by all means. It is necessary to continue to strike at the infrastructure, continue to surround Kharkov and take Nikolaev and Odessa.
    1. Valentine Offline Valentine
      Valentine (Valentin) April 6 2022 17: 36
      +1
      But don’t you think that now you need to take it as a hotbed of brutal fascism-Zap.Ukraine-Galicia, inflicting bomb and missile strikes on all industrial enterprises and infrastructure, thermal power plants and railways, but even then almost all the "warriors of the world" -the Nazis will rush from the front line of the Central and V. Ukraine to protect their "hatyns" and "houses", but even there the use of missiles and artillery will be without any "tenderness" -there is an enemy and alien land to us, along with its population, so that without any pity and without looking back at the tantrums of our "partners".
  12. dub0vitsky Offline dub0vitsky
    dub0vitsky (Victor) April 6 2022 17: 06
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    Quote: Krapilin
    Dear dub0vitsky (Victor)!

    The issue of trump cards is when playing the “card fool”.
    In the absence of a clearly stated goal of the NWO - without these encrypted "demilitarization" and "denazification" - NWO turns not into the art of the possible, but into the bad taste of the lost.

    You were told to what "territorial limit" in the vastness of Ukraine effective Russian weapons will spread?

    They tell you that fascists, drug addicts and neo-Nazis are in power in Kyiv, but they are negotiating with them - and this reduces the success of effective weapons on the battlefield ... to zero in terms of declared goals.

    A direct confrontation with NATO is a glassy territory from Spain to the Urals.
    And what does it mean - only "they have something to lose"?

    And finally - now on the territory of Ukraine there is not a confrontation between "politicians", but a confrontation between civilizations.

    That's it. We do not need Ukraine, but the collapse of NATO.
  13. dub0vitsky Offline dub0vitsky
    dub0vitsky (Victor) April 11 2022 21: 36
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    Quote: Krapilin
    Dear dub0vitsky (Victor)!

    The issue of trump cards is when playing the “card fool”.
    In the absence of a clearly stated goal of the NWO - without these encrypted "demilitarization" and "denazification" - NWO turns not into the art of the possible, but into the bad taste of the lost.

    You were told to what "territorial limit" in the vastness of Ukraine effective Russian weapons will spread?

    They tell you that fascists, drug addicts and neo-Nazis are in power in Kyiv, but they are negotiating with them - and this reduces the success of effective weapons on the battlefield ... to zero in terms of declared goals.

    A direct confrontation with NATO is a glassy territory from Spain to the Urals.
    And what does it mean - only "they have something to lose"?

    And finally - now on the territory of Ukraine there is not a confrontation between "politicians", but a confrontation between civilizations.

    Western civilization will not commit suicide. Look at old, say, English films about the world war. Filmed 40-45 years. We drank beer, hung out with the girls and flew to bomb. This is an example that they have not seen a REAL war. Woe is bittersweet - save Private Ryan. They would feel Stalingrad, ON THEM. They have something to lose. A well-fed life, acquired by robbing everyone around. We will calmly give EVERYTHING for victory. So there is no question for me. And, I think, to many of us.
    Political chatter and real war. What, the brains are so stuck together that you can't tell one from the other? We are not destroying Ukraine. The overriding task is different. After our unconditional victory, look at the behavior of "our partners". They said goodbye to Georgia three years later. naming the real culprit. With Ukraine it will be longer. Big piece. big disappointments. And the physics itself - the mass of inertia is greater here. The instrument-Ukraine will disappear, there will be a lull and adaptation to the new reality. Winners are not judged.