Ukraine General Admits That For Ukraine's Counteroffensive To Succeed, He Will Need Four To Six Times More Soldiers Than What Russia Has Deployed

Sergei Melnik, Ukrainian brigadier general and military chief of the Kharkiv region. Legión Marsel  

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Sergei Melnik, 45, is the paradigm of a generation of men in their 40s and 50s who are leading the defense of Ukraine. They are generals like him and his direct superiors: Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces Valeri Zaluzhni, 49; Army Commander Oleksandr Sirski, 57; and President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, 45. Younger than the authoritarian elites leading the invasion from Russia, their charisma and their proximity to the reality of war are qualities that they all wish to highlight. If Zelenskiy visits frontline positions just a few miles from enemy troops, Russian President Vladimir Putin meets commanders at a base located 93 miles from the front line. The same goes for Melnik: no Russian general has been seen, like he has, in trenches under artillery fire.  

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 .... Russia has built 500 miles of fortifications since last summer to protect the territories it occupied in the invasion. Melnik estimates that the superiority of fire and troops that will be needed to break through these Russian defenses is four to six times that of the enemy’s. This data confirms the titanic challenge facing Ukrainian troops, because military theory indicates that for an attacking army to succeed, it must have at least a three-to-one superiority over the defending army.