On Thursday, Lithuania’s military intelligence service said it estimated that Russia had enough resources to wage two more years of war in Ukraine.
Russia had been accumulating weapons and equipment over the long years of the Cold War. We estimate that its resources would last for another two years of a war of the same intensity as today.”
Elegijus Paulavicius-military intelligence chief told reporters
He stated that the review counted on the viewpoint that no foreign country would supply military aid to Moscow. He added that Russia has a large amount of weaponry stored in its reserves, which would let them “cause enormous damage and increase the costs of restoration”.
He spoke alongside his counterpart from civilian intelligence at a presentation of their annual report. Beyond estimations of Russian resources, the report also told that Russia’s mobilization last year revealed that aid for the war in Ukraine “is not as big as the regime’s propaganda tried to make it seem”.
Dissatisfaction with the regime’s policies is currently taking a passive form: mostly avoiding mobilization, complaining about poor provision and disarray in the army.”
the document said.
It also raised the chance that Russia’s collapses on the battlefield, further mobilization, and sudden decline of the economic situation “would have negative consequences for the stability of the regime”.
Lithuania, a member of both the European Union and NATO, has been a major supporter of Ukraine since it was invaded by Russia in February last year.
