{"id":36999,"date":"2022-05-10T13:38:04","date_gmt":"2022-05-10T10:38:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/?p=36999"},"modified":"2022-05-10T13:38:08","modified_gmt":"2022-05-10T10:38:08","slug":"russia-underestimates-resistance-in-ukraine-which-prevents-putin-from-declaring-significant-military-success-may-9-british-intelligence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/?p=36999","title":{"rendered":"Russia underestimates resistance in Ukraine, which prevents Putin from declaring significant military success May 9 &#8211; British intelligence"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Russia underestimated the strength of the Ukrainian resistance when it launched a full-scale invasion that prevented Russian dictator Vladimir Putin from declaring significant military success in Ukraine at the Victory Day parade on May 9.\u00a0This is stated in a regular\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DefenceHQ\/status\/1523896628578598912\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">report<\/a>\u00a0of British intelligence, published by the Ministry of Defense, <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>KYIV.\u00a0UkraineGate , 10 , May , 2022 | Ukraine News .\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Quote<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Russia&#8217;s underestimation of the Ukrainian resistance and its planning for the &#8216;best case scenario&#8217; have led to obvious operational failures, preventing President Putin from declaring significant military success in Ukraine at the May 9 Victory Parade,&#8221; the statement said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Details<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Intelligence suggests that Russia&#8217;s plan to invade was based on the mistaken assumption that Ukrainians would exercise limited resistance, so Russia would be able to quickly surround and bypass settlements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This assumption has forced Russian troops to try to conduct the initial stage of the operation with an easy, accurate approach, designed to achieve a quick victory at minimal cost, according to the British Ministry of Defense.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">However, the miscalculation led to unbearable losses and a further reduction in Russia&#8217;s operational focus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Source:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.unn.com.ua\/\">Ukrgate<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russia underestimated the strength of the Ukrainian resistance when it launched a full-scale invasion that prevented Russian dictator Vladimir Putin from declaring significant military success in Ukraine at the Victory Day parade on May 9.\u00a0This is stated in a regular\u00a0report\u00a0of British intelligence, published by the Ministry of Defense, KYIV.\u00a0UkraineGate , 10 , May , 2022 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":37001,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,10831],"tags":[813,996,2399,1854],"class_list":["post-36999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ukraine-news","category-war-news","tag-russia","tag-ukraine","tag-ukraine-gate","tag-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36999"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36999\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37002,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36999\/revisions\/37002"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/37001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}