He shared this information on his channel.
According to the expert, the world was unprepared for the war unfolding on the front lines, and as a result, all military doctrines are based on old wars like World War II or counter-terrorism efforts.
“Counter-terrorism involves precision weapons, meaning you fire and forget. For one, there's a humanitarian aspect: one bullet – one hit, one shell – one hit, rather than firing from a Grad and missing completely, resulting in civilian casualties. The West has opted for precision weaponry. However, it turns out that in these continental wars, what matters is not as much precision weapons, but older weapons from World War I or II, that is, area-effect weapons – artillery,” explains Oleg Starikov.
Military theorists, he notes, believed that artillery would become obsolete, that there would be no more MLRS, no 155-mm or 152-mm shells, which cost around 8 thousand euros, with only Excalibur remaining, where a shell costs 100 thousand dollars.
“Secondly, according to their doctrines, wars should last a maximum of 3 months. How long has the Russian-Ukrainian war been going on? 3 years. What economy in the world can sustain producing up to 10 thousand shells a day at a cost of 100 thousand dollars each? No economy in the world can withstand that. That’s why the West provides us assistance in the way they do, because they prepared for a war lasting only 3 months,” concludes Oleg Starikov.
As reported by Politeka, Musiienko explained how two Russian oil tankers sank in the Black Sea.
Additionally, Politeka reported that Palychkov mentioned how many Ukrainian territories have already been demined: “The area of some European countries”.