Where is the UK Defense Ministry evidence a “sweeping purge” will occur. Can they prove it will occur?
Just trust them?
Why when so much from the Brits and U.S. liberal MSM outlets turned out to be false, has been peppered with “inside sources” info, “anonymous sources,” wild claims that never came to pass, and the TV telling us “Putin wants this... here is Russia’s next steps... Here is what is going on” and then when it didn’t the TV said “See, Putin failed his objectuves” while never accepting the possibility that sleight of hand, putting x amount of troops near Kyiv to hold 3X as many Ukrainian troops there was a possibility.
Oh well, I guess we should just believe whatever the TV, the liberal MSM, and the genius U.S. generals who bungled the Afghanistan withdrawl tell us.
This is an editorial. Ymmv as usual with editorials.
The news item this is based on is an official statement of the UK Ministry of Defense. The MOD may be entirely wrong, but if they say something it is news, full stop. So would statements from the Russian MOD.
Its up to us to take this stuff and process it for accuracy and relevance.
How do you know that there were 3X the number of Ukrainian troops at Kiev? The count of active brigades in the Ukrainian Army does not support that. The bulk of them, as now, were in the East on the Donbas front. There were few reserves the Ukes could throw at the incursions from Kiev to Kharkiv. Most of the “front” there, such as it is in this war, was held by militia.
Have you examined the force structure of each side, identified higher and lower units, figured out the timing of commitment, reinforcement and withrawal? If you have, please be so kind as to post the tables with this information.