Real power of the russian army
March 10 2022, Vadym Chumak — From the general picture of mass-media in the civilized world I see that there is a big surprise to everyone by success of Ukrainian army and the failure of Russian army to achieve their tactical and strategic goals. Also, there are concerns about Putin’s revenge for military support of Ukraine, particularly for possible setting no-fly zone, which we desperately need indeed.
Let me explain some facts about Russian army and its real power. The fear of the West of the Russian military power is based on extrapolation from the mightiness of the Soviet/Red Army, which existed till 1991, the decay of the Soviet Union. However, little is known in the West that the backbone and brain of the Soviet Army were Ukrainians. By the time of decay of the USSR 40% of officers and almost 100% of sergeants in this army were Ukrainians (which were only about 16% of the population of the Soviet Union). If one goes deeper in history, during the WWII Ukraine contributed to the fight against Nazism 7 million combatants (23% of total man power) — including both my grand-fathers, more than a half of 15 fronts (military unit of the strategic level) were headed by Ukrainians, totally there were about 300 generals and admirals of Ukrainian origin.
Now Russian army is lacking this essential human resource and, therefore, cannot be compared with the former Soviet Army in any respect. Ironically, there are still some officers with apparent Ukrainian roots (good example is general Konashenkov, the speaker of the Russian Ministry of Defense) who are still obeying criminal orders of the world #1 terrorist, president Putin. However, general organization of the invading Russian army is very low, problems with logistics reflect is very well.
In turn, Ukrainian armed forces demonstrate high morale and, most important, remarkable military skills — no surprise given the facts I have mentioned above. No doubt, this defense and future counter-offensive would not be that efficient without supply from our friends and partners.
However, this support could be even higher, if no fear of direct confrontation with Russia and, most of all, threat of nuclear war, which might be launched by the mad man in Kremlin. To ease this fear, I should mention that the state of the Russian strategic forces is likely to be same low as the actual (not presented by Russian propaganda) power of the Russian ground forces invading now to Ukraine. One more fact: the most powerful nuclear missiles in the Russian arsenal (SS-18 Satan aka P-36) were designed and manufactured in Ukraine, a city of Dnipro (formerly Dnepropetrovsk) and till 2014 (the actual beginning of Russian war against Ukraine) were getting maintenance from Ukrainian engineers, this maintenance stopped in 2014 and one can only guess about the technical state of those missiles not being checked for eight years! From the other hand, Russian forces are already threating nuclear objects in Ukraine — Chornobyl site and Zaporizhzhia NPP with six reactors — the largest in Europe. This can transform to the nuclear catastrophe of unseen scale at any time even without nuclear weapon strikes.
So, my friends, do not be afraid of the Russian Army, which is stopped and successfully deteriorated by Ukrainians. We still need active help and supply from the allies all over the civilized world and the sooner this aid will come, the less innocent people will be killed by non-selective bombardment of living blocks in Ukrainian cities. No-fly zone is the most obvious and urgent measure — use your voice to urge your governments to unveil this essential element of support.
Slava Ukraini! Together to the victory over the Evil Empire
