This speaks of the absolute failure of the goals of the operation, which faced the invaders.

This was announced on Wednesday, April 27, by Aleksey Arestovich , adviser to the head of the President’s Office, in an interview with Russian human rights activist Mark Feigin.

“In the direction of Izyum, from Izyum to Kramatorsk, Slavyansk, rather on Barvinkovo there a little to the left, Russian troops advanced – they occupied 20 square kilometers. In our country, all people like to panic, tears, just because” Russian troops advanced 20 km”. Well, let me remind you of the Soviet norms. An army operation. This is about 20 days in duration. The army spends 50-80 thousand according to Soviet standards. And the rate of advance in 20 days is, now, of course, such a depth does not work, but in those days it was 200-250 km In 20 days they had to go 250 km in depth, if this is a successful operation, we will take it as a unit of analysis.

Now we take, they are about to conduct an army operation there. It lasts from April 4 in the Izyum direction. During this time, they advanced 12–17 km. In the Soviet Union, they would have been shot for such a war. This is a completely unsuccessful operation. It’s just that the public doesn’t understand it and we have to explain it regularly.

Dear citizens, success and failure in war is not measured by the number of occupied cells. As in chess, you can not occupy a single cell, checkmate and that’s it. Performance is measured not even by defense and offensive. Because these are types of hostilities – there is no difference in defending or attacking. And performance is measured by the destruction of the enemy. So we’ve been very successful at this. A low rate of advance shows the failure of the enemy. Because they do not fulfill the goals of the operation – neither military nor political, which were set before them. That’s all,” Arestovich explained.

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