The American Institute for Studying War analyzed the speech of President Vladimir Putin at a meeting of the Human Rights Council.
In his speech, the President of Russia stated that” special operation “is a” long process “, and its result should be the acquisition of new territories. “Putin spent profitable parallels between himself and the Russian king Peter I, noting that Russia now controls the Sea of Azov, for which Peter the Great also fought,” say American experts.
” The mention of Russian imperial history is openly positioning Putin’s current goals in Ukraine as clearly imperialist and still maximalist, – the summary says. “Putin is preparing an internal Russian audience for a long tiring war in Ukraine, which is needed to capture new Ukrainian territories” .
In addition, American experts pay attention to the first in the last three weeks the use of Horky Iranian produced in Ukraine. The Ukrainian military said that the Russian army again used them on Wednesday night for shocks in several cities, including the Dnieper, the Kiev region, the Poltava, Zhytomyr and Zaporizhzhya regions.
” Russian forces probably modified the drones for use in cold weather and, most likely, in the coming weeks they will more often use them to hit Ukrainian critical infrastructure, “ISW experts write in this regard. /p>