sat down on GB News to discuss the invasion in Ukraine.
Russian forces have been invading neighbouring Ukraine and the Western world watches on and offers aid and refuge to Ukrainian citizens fleeing the warzone.
Mr Chapman
Mr Chapman said: They’re also stuck in Chernihiv and you need a five to one ratio in what we call operations in built-up areas.
“They haven’t got massive forces to do that and also they’re currently stuck in Mykolaiv because they cant launch the operation in Odesa unless they have a land route through there.
“So there’s sort of a mixed picture, but I will always say this is D-plus 13, it’s the 14th day, this is going to be in for the long haul.
“So at the moment, you would probably say that probably the next two or three weeks would be interesting from the Russian perspective.
Mr Chapman added: “In terms of the sustainability that the first echelon of forces that they’ve committed, have they really got some form of logistic balance?
“And if they’ve not, they might wither on the vine and die.”
British Defence Secretary Ben Wallace uttered a similar sentiment on BBC Radio 4.
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Mr Wallace also explained that Russian troops were already exhausted and that Putin’s plan would cause Russian forces to turn in on themselves.
Which will then make them turn on Putin, causing a complete collapse.
Insinuating that Putin has miscalculated the invasion into Ukraine, Mr Wallace added: “And if you think it takes 150,000 as he thinks it does to invade a country where he was arrogantly thinking they would welcome him as a liberator, you try occupying a country the size of France and Germany put together with 44m.
“This will be Putin’s end, this country and so it should be.
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Many westerners are having trouble distinguishing between the total numbers of militant deaths, as it is hard to verify during a time of war.
Matthew Boulegue, of Chatham House’s Russia and Eurasia Programme, explained that Putin’s advisers were currently more likely to be giving Putin a positive assessment of the war.
Mr Boulegue said: “There’s always the tendency to sweep under the rug the bad news that you need to give your leader. When Putin says things are going according to plan, he generally believes it as people have been feeding him information.
“They have a lot of problems they’ve tried to hide and can’t really announce but we see because of all the info coming from open sources.”
