The troops' questions were secondary: how the West is developing its security

The military issues were secondary: how the West is developing its security Alexandra Sadovaya

Now the West is focusing on defense First of all, Europe is investing in infrastructure to repair equipment, produce shells, and so on. After all, before, much less was done with troops.

Over the past 30 years, when the Soviet Union collapsed, the West believed that there was no one else to resist, so reduced investment in the army. This 24 Channel was noted by ex-SBU employee Ivan Stupak.

“Now they are investing in infrastructure so that in any moment it was possible to take from the warehouses a large number of shells that had already been manufactured, which were already lying around, and in a very short time they could accelerate the existing capacities and began to produce as much ammunition as needed,” he said.

~60. ~h2 class=”news-subtitle cke-markup”>Europeans' ideas about the war were different

Ivan Stupak noted that Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine showed the West that the dogmas they believed in were wrong. The Europeans believed that if a war began, it would be fleeting, and that it could be ended quickly. Therefore, now they are actively investing in their safety.

Let's look at Avdievka, Bakhmut. Hundreds of thousands of shells. If you count the number of Russian ammunition that fell on cities captured by the Russians, then these will be tactical nuclear strikes that were carried out on the territory of Ukraine, the ex-SBU employee emphasized.