I agree they're not likely to be making it up wholly out of thin air. There have been examples of Russian targeting of training activities like the EW training center in Poltava in early September.
But I don't think the West is prepared to put its forces at the kind of risk that an extensive, in-country, combat-arms-unit training effort…
I agree they're not likely to be making it up wholly out of thin air. There have been examples of Russian targeting of training activities like the EW training center in Poltava in early September.
But I don't think the West is prepared to put its forces at the kind of risk that an extensive, in-country, combat-arms-unit training effort would entail. And I don't think its existence could be kept from the Western media or from Russian targeting. So I take the SVR report with a big grain of salt.
I agree they're not likely to be making it up wholly out of thin air. There have been examples of Russian targeting of training activities like the EW training center in Poltava in early September.
But I don't think the West is prepared to put its forces at the kind of risk that an extensive, in-country, combat-arms-unit training effort would entail. And I don't think its existence could be kept from the Western media or from Russian targeting. So I take the SVR report with a big grain of salt.