The ongoing Russo-Ukrainian War is a war of “inches” instead of “rapid movement,” says a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council think tank.
Adrian Karatnycky told TVP World that despite its decade-long attempt to take Ukraine, Russia has only made tiny advances since its initial invasion in 2014, when it occupied and annexed the country’s Crimea Peninsula.
He added that although southeast Ukraine saw constant skirmishes break out between Moscow-backed separatists and the Ukrainian military, which escalated when Russia launched its full-scale attack in February 2022, Moscow has made very few gains since.
Karatnycky said: “At the moment this is a war of inches rather than of rapid movement. “Even all this movement that Russia has made in Ukraine… this is minuscule.”
Basing his opinion on analysis and advocating against “endless” war, Karatnycky said that it would take Moscow hundreds of years to capture the whole of Ukraine.
He said: “It’s been calculated that Russia will need 300 years to reconquer the rest of Ukraine, and Ukraine would probably need several thousand years based on the Kursk operation to capture, say, European Russia.”
Ukrainian soldiers entered Russia’s Kursk region on August 6, making it the first foreign military to enter Russian territory since the Nazis in WWII.
Click on the video above to watch the full interview.
He added that although southeast Ukraine saw constant skirmishes break out between Moscow-backed separatists and the Ukrainian military, which escalated when Russia launched its full-scale attack in February 2022, Moscow has made very few gains since.
Karatnycky said: “At the moment this is a war of inches rather than of rapid movement. “Even all this movement that Russia has made in Ukraine… this is minuscule.”
Basing his opinion on analysis and advocating against “endless” war, Karatnycky said that it would take Moscow hundreds of years to capture the whole of Ukraine.
He said: “It’s been calculated that Russia will need 300 years to reconquer the rest of Ukraine, and Ukraine would probably need several thousand years based on the Kursk operation to capture, say, European Russia.”
Ukrainian soldiers entered Russia’s Kursk region on August 6, making it the first foreign military to enter Russian territory since the Nazis in WWII.
Click on the video above to watch the full interview.
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