Predicting Ukraine's next steps, Igor Girkin said that Ukraine might launch a series of 'diversionary' strikes that would prompt Russia to react 'seriously.'
Putin launched a full-scale invasion on Ukraine last February with confidence that his country would achieve a quick victory against his Eastern European neighbor, but Russia's goals have been hindered by a stronger-than-expected response from Ukrainian troops, mainly backed and bolstered by military aid from the West.
Above, former Defence Minister of separatist"Donetsk People's Republic" and Russian Federal Security Service officer Igor Strelkov speeches during his press conference, September 27, 2022, in Moscow, Russia. Girkin recently predicted Ukraine’s future offensive, which he thinks might get the Russian President Valdimir Putin and his supporters “out of a state of being on the planet of pink ponies.
"They [Ukrainian troops] are unlikely to set the task of capturing [Russian city] Belgorod ...That is fraught with the risk that the Russian bear will really stop sluggishly fighting back. He will get angry, jump out of the den, and start fighting for real," Girkin said.
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