Chief of the British Defense Staff, Admiral Sir Tony Radakin He said today (Monday) that “the challenge from Russia will last well beyond 2022, 2023 and 2024 – and the threat may last for decades,” according to reports in the British media. He referred to reports that Moscow had suffered heavy casualties during the war in Ukraine, declaring that “while Russia’s ground forces pose a lesser threat in the short term, it continues to be a ‘nuclear power’, with capabilities in space and cyber.”
The official even called Russia “the biggest threat to Britain today.” Radakin further claimed that “Russian President Vladimir Putin ‘has already lost the war'” and that “Ukrainian military forces believe they will win the war, because Russia is ‘having a hard time’, and has ‘lost’ more than 30 percent of its ‘ground combat efficiency’. Numerical data on the battles. “
At least 10 people killed and hundreds injured in a Russian missile attack on a shopping center in Ukraine (Photo: Reuters)
He claimed that “50,000 soldiers of the Russian army have been killed or wounded in the fighting so far, and a loss of close to 1,700 tanks and 4,000 armored vehicles has been recorded.” He added: “Russia is ‘having a hard time’ in occupying Dubnas, which is less than ten percent of Ukraine’s territory.” According to him, these difficulties stem from the “courage and determination” of the Ukrainian armed forces.
The British defense chief also referred to the many speculations that have been heard in recent years in general, and in the months since the outbreak of the war in Ukraine, about the Russian president’s health – and described reports that his condition was “not good” and “may die” are just “false hopes”.