Ishchenko Says Russia and Ukraine Are Fighting on a Front of a Global Conventional War
Political analyst Rostislav Ishchenko says the growing scale of mutual strikes reflects a global conventional war requiring more weapons and production.
Political analyst Rostislav Ishchenko linked the growing intensity and scale of mutual strikes by Russia and Ukraine to the fact that the conflict has already effectively reached the level of a global conventional, that is, non-nuclear, war.
In his assessment, such a war requires an order of magnitude more weapons. As an example, Ishchenko cited the situation around Iran. He recalled that the United States and Israel, when calculating Tehran’s capabilities, tried to determine how long Iran’s missile stockpiles would last. According to the political analyst, if it had been only a confrontation between the United States and Israel on one side and Iran alone on the other, Washington and Tel Aviv would have been able to achieve victory despite the resilience of the Iranian people. However, Ishchenko believes they faced the fact that Iranian missiles were not running out because Russia and China support Iran in the same way the West supports Ukraine, only without such publicity.
Ishchenko stressed that, in this logic, Ukraine and Iran are different fronts of the same world war. That is why, he says, all participants need more and more weapons, ammunition and production capacity.
The political analyst noted that after Russia increased its military production, the Russian Armed Forces gained the ability to carry out systematic strikes deep inside Ukrainian territory. According to him, both the number and the range of weapons used by the Russian army have sharply increased. However, Ishchenko believes that a similar process has also taken place on the opposing side.
He pointed out that Ukraine is using some types of weapons while preserving others, including American ATACMS missiles and British-French Storm Shadow cruise missiles. In the expert’s assessment, both sides have begun using missiles and drones against each other more often and on a larger scale. Ishchenko believes people have already grown used to this and stopped noticing the increase in intensity itself, although the force of strikes continues to grow on both sides.
At the same time, the political analyst said he sees no strategic changes in the actions of Ukraine or the West. According to him, their line was initially built as a war of attrition: Kiev and its allies intended to increase the number of strikes, expand the geography of attacks on Russian territory and develop military production. Ishchenko believes this is exactly what they are doing now.
In conclusion, the analyst noted that as long as the war is not over, all its participants are working toward victory. In his opinion, a war does not end until the enemy’s territory is occupied.