Special Services

The latest information on the course of the Russian aggression against Ukraine indicates that this war is taking the form of a war of exhaustion. Russia gathers considerable forces on a small section of the frontline and then launches an operation that employs the Soviet-style methods of recon in force and massive artillery attacks.

During these attacks, not only the positions of the Ukrainian forces are shelled, but also the entire area of their deployment, including civilian buildings, industrial facilities, historical sites, places of worship and natural areas and habitats. These aggressive actions are intended not only to defeat Ukrainians in military terms, but also to break the spirit of Ukraine, undermine the country’s economic, social, demographic and cultural foundations.

The Ukrainian defenders inflict heavy losses on Russia and manage to launch counter-attacks is some locations. Mindful of the risk of decimation, Russians decide to send mercenaries and citizens of the occupied territories of Donbass to the frontline en masse.

According to the latest intelligence, the Kremlin seeks to spare ethnic Russians, and instead it sends to the frontline the representatives of Russia’s ethnic and national minorities, as well as the poorly educated people and dwellers of the country’s most impoverished regions.

Due to huge equipment losses, it is becoming more and more common for Russia to send obsolete military equipment to fight, including the one manufactured as long ago as in 1970’s. It is really happening, although the Kremlin is fully aware that the Soviet-era tanks or howitzers stand no chance against the modern military technology supplied to Ukraine by the West.

Spokesman for Poland’s Minister-Special Services Coordinator