A year of Russian battlefield struggles doesn't mean that the military threat from Moscow is neutered, the trainer told Newsweek.
of one year ago," Erik said."They've lost a lot of capacity and capability. A lot of their trained officers were killed. They pulled out a lot of their trained cadre from throughout Russia, even in the east. They have fewer tanks, they have fewer aircraft."
The well-executed retreat from the occupied southern city of Kherson in September was an indication that Moscow and its commanders had learned lessons from the first seven months at war, Erik said. So too was Russia's stemming of Ukraine's counter-offensive in the northeast and its gradual—if costly—progress in the east.
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