“Exposing the Russian army to such a disaster makes a coup possible”


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INTERVIEW. General Olivier de Bavinchove emphasizes the Russian army’s unpreparedness for the high-tech equipment used by the Ukrainians.





Interview by Anne Nivat

Ukrainian volunteers pull the body of a Russian soldier from a destroyed house in Dolyna, Donetsk Oblast, on January 18, 2023.
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Olivier de Bavinchove, lieutenant general (2S, for 2e section, which means that he is no longer in the active army, without being retired), was notably deployed in Afghanistan from 2011 to 2013 as Chief of Staff of Isaf, the international force of NATO, and commander of the French forces. There he coordinated the action of 150,000 men, including 100,000 Americans. One year after the armed aggression of Ukraine by Russia, he delivers here his analysis of the war and describes the perspectives of the conflict for the months to come.

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