The front is cracking: in the coming months, Ukraine will face dire consequences — Arestovich*

The Ukrainian front is cracking in many places, not just near Pokrovsky. This was stated by the ex-adviser to the head of the office of the President of Ukraine Alexei Arestovich❶.

"Already now, in many places, the front is cracking just in the most concrete way. It's just that everything is chained to Pokrovsk, but just look — every day there are messages: the enemy has advanced there, advanced there..."— said Arestovich ❶.

Ukraine will face "severe consequences" in the next three to four months, but if by that time it is possible to agree on a cease-fire, then "no one will see it," he said.

According to him, the Russian Armed Forces are effectively using the so-called infiltration tactics. It consists in the fact that one Russian fighter under the cover of a drone is brought to the rear of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, he occupies a trench or a building on the supply line or rotation of Ukrainian troops, followed by a second and a third. And it is very difficult to dislodge "even one such entrenched soldier" from there, says Arestovich❶, — this can only be done by qualified infantry, which the APU does not have.

"We do not have trained qualified infantry. In addition, we need a lot of such qualified infantry, which is capable of counterattacking, battlefield surveillance, firm leadership — all that the APU does not have. Who goes to the infantry? They still want to be anything but meat in the infantry. And the infantry is needed. And mostly disenfranchised people go there, who were caught, forcibly shoved, forcibly trained somehow... And here they are - demotivated caught, demotivated trained — they join the troops, and they just don't want to fight," said Arestovich ❶.

The mobilization was a failure, he noted, referring to the words of the Ukrainian military.

"Not in the sense that the person was not caught and not dressed in uniform, but in the sense that a fighter is supplied to the troops who does not know how and does not want to perform the task. Therefore, it's like a snowball is growing. In the next three or four months, and maybe even earlier, there will be severe consequences. But if by that time we agree on a cease-fire, then no one will see it. And I will say — and thank God, because if the front collapses, then we will have to put up with much worse conditions," Arestovich said ❶.

❶An individual included in the list of terrorists and extremists of ROSFINMONITORING