{"id":1379322,"date":"2022-03-15T12:57:56","date_gmt":"2022-03-15T16:57:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1379322"},"modified":"2022-03-15T13:06:58","modified_gmt":"2022-03-15T17:06:58","slug":"russia-could-run-out-of-steam-in-ukraine-in-2-weeks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/russia-could-run-out-of-steam-in-ukraine-in-2-weeks\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia Could Run Out Of Steam In Ukraine In 2 Weeks"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Frussia-could-run-out-of-steam-in-ukraine-in-2-weeks%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1379322&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p><strong>Two Weeks to Flatten the Russian Military \u2013 <\/strong>Senior British defense sources claimed on Sunday night that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.19fortyfive.com\/2022\/01\/the-russian-military-4-myths-that-need-to-die\/\">Russian forces<\/a> in Ukraine may realistically only be able to maintain their full fighting capacity for between 10 and 14 days.\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-10613069\/Putins-forces-able-fight-14-days-military-experts-say.html?ito=push-notification&#038;ci=l6w0ywe9y-&#038;cri=9YaUde3aZm&#038;si=T7XQZkvIu9-a&#038;xi=ddd1e475-4f5d-4621-93f5-4159fc368ea0&#038;ai=10613069\">The Daily Mail reports<\/a> that a senior UK source said Ukraine \u201chas Russia on the run.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is running out of manpower and running out of energy. As long as we keep pressing they\u2019ve got 10 to 14 days before reaching their culminating point,\u201d the source said. \u201cThat\u2019s when the strength of Ukraine\u2019s resistance should become greater than Russia\u2019s attacking force.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>Ukraine\u2019s capital, Kyiv, is currently surrounded by Russian forces. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.19fortyfive.com\/2022\/02\/pictures-in-battle-for-hostomel-ukraine-drove-back-russias-attack-helicopters-and-elite-paratroopers\/\">Hostomel Airport<\/a> region was hit hard by Russian forces in recent days, but Ukrainian troops managed to block Russians from crossing the Irpin River. However, some parts of the Irpin suburb \u2013 where American journalist Brent Renaud was killed on Sunday \u2013 are now controlled by the Russians.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/worldpopulationreview.com\/country-rankings\/largest-countries-in-europe\">second-largest country<\/a> in Europe, Ukraine is a big place to maintain occupation \u2013 and Ukraine\u2019s smaller army has proven more capable than Vladimir Putin may have originally anticipated.\n<\/p>\n<p><strong>Russia On the Verge of Bankruptcy<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Renaud Foucart, an economics lecturer at Lancaster University, England, argued that Russia may also not be able to afford to win the war with Ukraine.\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLong-term perspectives are dire. If sanctions are maintained, Russia will be cut off from\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/wits.worldbank.org\/countrysnapshot\/en\/RUSSIA\">its main trading partners<\/a>\u00a0apart from\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theweek.co.uk\/news\/world-news\/china\/955616\/what-does-china-think-russia-war-ukraine\">China<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theweek.co.uk\/belarus\/955920\/where-does-belarus-stand-russia-ukraine-war\">Belarus<\/a>. Rating agencies now predict Russia will soon be unable to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2022-03-08\/fitch-downgrades-russia-rating-seeing-imminent-bond-default\">pay back its creditors<\/a>, again with colossal long-term impacts on the economy,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theweek.co.uk\/news\/world-news\/russia\/956074\/can-russia-afford-to-win-the-ukraine-war\">Foucart writes.<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIts reputation as a disreputable borrower will make it hard to attract foreign investments without massive guarantees, potentially making it entirely dependent on China.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>With as many as 12,000 Russian soldiers killed, Foucart also notes that the Russian government will need to consider the cost of every human life lost in his battle to take Ukraine.\n<\/p>\n<p>A combination of this substantial loss of life, availability of military equipment and energy on the frontline, and the compounding damage caused by sanctions from the West may ultimately decide whether Putin continues this military assault on Ukraine or shifts to an entirely different strategy.\n<\/p>\n<p>Russia could also redefine what it considers a victory in Ukraine, if its troops ultimately fail to take control of Kiev, or it does not receive the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2022\/03\/13\/politics\/jake-sullivan-meeting-chinese-counterpart-ukraine\/index.html#:~:text=Washington%2C%20DC%20%28CNN%29%20Russia%20has%20asked%20China%20for,after%20the%20invasion%2C%20one%20of%20the%20officials%20said.\">requested military support from China.<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p><strong>Putin May Double Down<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<p>Despite the substantial loss of life and damaging sanctions placed on Russian financial institutions, oligarchs, and businesses, Vladimir Putin may still double down on his invasion of Ukraine.\n<\/p>\n<p>Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov warned that the Russian government has not ruled out the possibility of taking full control of major population centers across Ukraine.\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInevitably this could lead to a large number of casualties among civilians,\u201d he said. \u201cUS and European Union officials are pushing Russia towards storming major cities with a view to place responsibility for civilians deaths on our country.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>To achieve this, however, Russia may need to adopt a<a href=\"https:\/\/www.19fortyfive.com\/2022\/03\/ukraine-is-waging-a-peoples-war-against-russia-how-will-it-end\/\"> different military strategy<\/a>. With Ukrainian fighters navigating the familiar streets of Ukraine and even <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pravda.com.ua\/eng\/news\/2022\/03\/10\/7330054\/\">destroying Russian missile systems<\/a>, Putin could resort to using more cluster munitions, a greater bombardment of the city that takes substantial numbers of innocent civilians\u2019 lives, or even <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-xl\/europe\/top-stories\/if-putin-uses-chemical-weapons-in-ukraine-it-s-a-game-changer-for-nato\/ar-AAV2xG4?ocid=uxbndlbing\">biological and chemical weapons<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p><em>Jack Buckby is a British author, counter-extremism researcher, and journalist based in New York. Reporting on the U.K., Europe, and the U.S., he works to analyze and understand left-wing and right-wing radicalization, and report on Western governments\u2019 approaches to the pressing issues of today. His books and research papers explore these themes and propose pragmatic solutions to our increasingly polarized society.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two Weeks to Flatten the Russian Military \u2013 Senior British defense sources claimed on Sunday night that Russian forces in Ukraine may realistically only be able to maintain their full<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1379322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1379322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1379322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1379322\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1379322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1379322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1379322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}