GLOBAL DEFENSE's video: Ukraine War: How General Winter Will Change The Nature Of Russian Military Operations In Ukraine

Ukraine War: How "General Winter" Will Change The Nature Of Russian Military Operations In Ukraine The expected support of the Russian troops in Ukraine by “General Winter” was recently announced by the EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Josep Borrel. Borrel, who has never served in the army, nevertheless recalled the military aspect of the impending cold weather and not only the freezing of Europe due to the energy crisis. He recollected from history that the cold helped Russians in the past, alluding to the defeat of fascists near Moscow in the winter of 1941 to 1942. And now, they say, it will not be easy for the Ukrainian Armed Forces to cope with this mythical “General Winter”. The minister of defense of Ukraine Alexey Reznikov, who is also a purely civilian man, evidently remembering his service as a common soldier in the Armed Forces of the USSR, took a more pragmatic approach to the problem of the cold snap. At the beginning of September, he asked the NATO leaders to send winter uniforms for the Ukrainian Armed Forces. It is not by chance that the Ukrainian Armed Forces now rely on supplies of western uniforms. They do not have their own. One of the reasons cited is the destruction of storage facilities with uniforms by precision strikes from Russian missiles. According to another reason, winter uniforms were distributed to fighters back in the summer, which was hot, and they were lost or abandoned during the retreat. In general, the Ukrainian army is freezing now, when night temperatures do not exceed eight degrees Celsius. # General Winter