Кажуть що кацапи намагаються створити для наступу на Донбасі чисельну перевагу 5:1.
Брити надають перевагу нашим, бо вважають, що навіть велика чисельна перевага кацапів не змінить того факту, що українці значно кращі, і що велику кількість сильних кацапських підрозділів вже знищено пі Києвом та в Маріуполі.
Russia is attempting to muster a force that will outnumber Ukrainian troops in the east of the country five to one.
A Ukrainian military source said Russian troops were being brought in from across the region for what Moscow hoped would be a decisive battle in Donbas. They insisted the force, comprising tens of thousands of soldiers, would still fall short of the number needed for Russia to win.
General Sir Richard Barrons, a former British military chief, said: “[The Russians] will try to put more ground forces in the face of the Ukrainians at once to get the force ratios right, knowing the Ukrainians in the east are in very well-prepared positions.” He said well-established defensive positions were “really difficult to overcome” and that experts talked about the need for a force ratio of at least five to one, if not seven to one, in a frontal assault. Although Russia was unlikely to be able to mount a force seven times bigger than the Ukrainian one, Barrons said, “this will be a very hard attritional fight”.
Barrons said the Russians would probably try to encircle the Ukrainian troops to force them to leave well-defended positions. He said Russian tanks should be able to move quickly across open country and spread out, making them harder to target, adding: “The Ukrainians are going to need weapons of great range and lethality.”
At the start of the invasion Ukraine had about ten brigades in Donbas, which western officials said amounted to slightly less than half the overall Ukrainian force. James Heappey, the armed forces minister, said the battle for Donbas would be between two “very well-matched” militaries and it was “quite likely” Ukraine would win. He told Times Radio: “The Ukrainians have got the wind on their back. They have seen off the initial advances [and] defeated some of Russia’s best regiments and battalions. The next wave of Russian troops that come at them in the Donbas will not be Russia’s best.”
He reiterated the view that Putin’s plan for Donbas is driven by his desire to show “some big military success” on May 9, the day Russia commemorates the defeat of Germany in 1945.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/vladimir-putin-bids-outnumber-ukraine-troops-donbas-region-wtnzws0ks#:~:text=Putin%20bids%20to%20outnumber%20Ukrainian%20troops%20five%20to%20one%20in%20the%20Donbas%20region,-Larisa%20Brown&text=Russia%20is%20attempting%20to%20muster,the%20country%20five%20to%20one.
