At a time when Russia appears to be regaining ground in Ukraine, the NATO Supreme Allied Commander Europe, Christopher Cavoli, said, on Thursday 16 May, that Russia did not have the means to make a major breakthrough in Ukraine.
“The Russians don’t have the numbers necessary to do a strategic breakthrough (...), more to the point, they don’t have the skill and the capability to do it”, he explained at the end of the 191st session of the NATO Military Committee in Chiefs of Defence.