Tag: Air superiority

A New Russian Offensive in Ukraine Would Cost Moscow More Casualties than USSR Suffered in Afghanistan

November 7, 2014
Ukraine
Window on Eurasia

Staunton, November 5 – Ever more commentators are suggesting that a new round of Russian military aggression in Ukraine is likely in order to secure a Russian-controlled land corridor to Crimea, an action that some analysts say would cost Russia more killed and wounded than it has suffered in any conflict since World War II. […]

Russia Can Seize Southeastern Ukraine but Not Hold It, Akhmetov Says

March 28, 2014
Ukraine
Window on Eurasia

Staunton, March 28 – The Russian Federation currently has enough forces on the border of Ukraine to seize the southeastern portions of that country, but because it will face a partisan war after it defeats the out-manned Ukrainian military, the Russian forces currently available are insufficient to hold that region, according to Rashit Akhmetov. In […]