Speaks military strategy expert, what is behind Kiev's withdrawal of military

Thus, according to Claudio Bertoletti, military strategy expert at the Institute of International Policy Studies (ISPI) in Italy and director of “Start Inight”, Russian troop maneuvers that have been observed over the last few days.

After more than a month of conflict, which turned into a dialogue war, Moscow now wants to regain its initial momentum, which enabled it to progress at a good pace, regardless of what has been said in recent weeks.

Putin's goal now is to complete the full conquest of Donbas as soon as possible, annexing the region's territories. But we cannot rule out the opportunity.

so that right after that step, he decides to go back to Kiev, circle the Ukrainian capital again, and then sit down at the negotiating table from a strong position”.

This scenario, much earlier planned by the Russians, materialised for other actors involved only on March 25th, when Moscow reiterated that its first goal remains to control Donbas.

Russian “Armed Forces will focus on the full release of Donbasit” -- said in a statement by the Russian Defence Ministry quoted by Russian news agency Tass. She also explained that attacks that have caused the loss of Ukrainian forces in the besieged territories are intended to prevent the shipment of reinforcements to Donbas on Kiev's side.

The aim of the Kremlin is to end Ukrainian resistance to the east, since at least according to the General Staff of the Russian Army, Moscow forces and local separatist militia have control of 94 percent of the province's province of Luhansk and 54 percent of Donnetsk' territory.

On March 27th, it was the British Defence Ministry, which declared that the Russian <x0trus were focusing their efforts on the siege of Ukrainian forces in separatist regions east of the country, advancing from Kharkivi's direction to the north and Marioupoli to the south of”.

This thesis has also been reinforced by the movements of recent-hour troops as a group of soldiers stationed around Kiev have returned to Belarus, while others have fled the eastern regions of Russia and, apparently, from Georgia, and are already ready to enter Ukraine.

“Different from what some observers claim, Russian troops' progress was developed largely according to plans”-thexon Bertoltti. The “those who speculated that a Blitzkrig did not take into account the fact that an offensive like the Kremlin, characterized by the progress of armoured vehicles and developed during the frost melting, could not be completed within a few days.

Now, after weeks of battles in the trench, it seems that Moscow is ready to move a large number of soldiers to the eastern front, starting a siege maneuver to get all Donbas and Marioupolis. It is not clear whether there will be a troop shift, which would allow those who have engaged and tired in more than a month of fighting, or whether there will be an increase in the number of field personnel”- says the expert.

It is difficult to believe, he adds, that the Ukrainian small territorial re-profits, or the withdrawal of certain units from several fronts, could be an indication of a large-scale failure of the Russian Army engaged in Ukraine.

The “Russians have certainly suffered some defeat, as is normal for a war. But I don't think these little episodes can be considered a sign of failure. I think the displacement of troops from Kiev is more of a signal of reorganization, predicting a slight loss of the ground, which will be compensated for by a major offensive in Donbas.

The dialogue wars, such as this current one, are generally won by the largest armies and are more willing to take into account a large number of victims, and I find that Russia meets both these requirements. Moscow will not take a step back”- claims Bertoletti.

This is so true that after a final hypothetical invasion of eastern regions, Russian progress can continue. Once Donbass has taken over, the expert adds, Moscow can decide to focus all its forces on Kiev, in a siege that would be much heavier than the first one to date, limited to the peripheral areas of the capital.

Not so much with the intention of conquering it, an epilogue that would have a great symbolic value, but that is very complicated and costly to achieve, but to sit at the table of talks from a very strong”- concludes Bertoletti. /abcnews. al