A complacent West underestimates just how low the Kremlin could go.
Too many among Britain’s political and media class are in danger of taking Russia’s defeat for granted.
UK defence secretary Ben Wallace said this week that the Kremlin’s operational capability in Ukraine ‘falters further every day’. Even Michael Clarke, a sober military expert, has insisted that Putin now faces ‘only different kinds of defeat’.
This may well be true. But there is a risk of complacency about what lies ahead.
#Ukraine: Russian forces sustained remarkable losses from the failed bridging attempt over the Siverskyi Donets River.
We count 6x T-72B-series MBT, 14x BMP-1/2 variants, 7x MT-LB, a tugboat & 5+ other armoured vehicles destroyed/abandoned/damaged. Note precise ID is very hard. https://t.co/py48JvXWUG pic.twitter.com/cqX60F0KPT
— 🇺🇦 Ukraine Weapons Tracker (@UAWeapons) May 11, 2022
