According to media reports such as Air Force Magazine and the news website Vox, on the surface, Russia is far superior to Ukraine in all combat capabilities, including the army, navy, and air force, but so far the situation is still unfavorable, and its performance is even usable. “Incompetent” to describe it; several experts pointed out that Russia’s invasion plan was “extremely bad”, and faced with serious logistical problems, the Russian army has been forced to slow down the offensive in frustration.
A senior U.S. defense official told Air Force Magazine that the Ukrainians had “resisted very tenaciously and heroically,” and that the Russians had been frustrated by logistical problems such as fuel and had been forced to slow down their offensive; U.S. think tank “Navy Analysis” Center” (CNA) senior researcher Michael Kofman (Michael Kofman) said that the Russian military’s recent performance is “very ridiculous and incompetent”; US Marine Corps Reserve Major, “On Tactics: A Theory of Victory” (On Tactics: A Theory of Victory) Experts such as Brett Friedman, author of in Battle, said that the Russian military is now a “paper tiger on fire”, and its own capabilities are insufficient to fully perform basic battlefield functions.
To make matters worse, Russia has a terrible invasion plan. Henrik Paulsson, a professor in the Department of War Studies at the Swedish Defense University, pointed out that a large part of Russia’s war plan assumes that its main force will be able to reach Kyiv within 48 hours and that the Ukrainians are extremely ignorant. The ability to resist, without sufficient logistics and support plans, allowed the paratroopers and other troops to advance alone in the chaos and did not carry out multi-arms coordinated operations, resulting in the Russian army paying a very heavy price.
However, experts warned that the Russian army still has complete coordinated combat capabilities and strength, so in the long run, Russia still has an advantage in the war; senior US defense officials warned on February 28 that the Russian army may change to siege Major cities such as Kyiv have deliberately made it impossible for the military and civilians in the city to obtain basic living materials such as food, hoping to force Ukraine to submit with brutal tactics.
