The presidential elections in Russia scheduled for March will have an impact on the situation on the battlefield in Ukraine, the Estonian General Staff has suggested. Source: Estonian public broadcaster ERR, citing Colonel Tarmo Kundla, Head of the Operations Division of the Estonian Defence Forces General Staff, as reported by European Pravda Details: "The upcoming presidential election in Russia will affect the efforts of both sides.
The New York Democrat on Tuesday ripped Republicans for rejecting the hard-fought compromise and signalled he expected the vote to fail to reach the 60-vote margin.
Commenting on the situation on the battlefield in Ukraine at a briefing on 2 February, Colonel Eero Rebo, Chief of the General Staff of the Estonian Defence Forces, has noted that Russian forces retained the initiative in ground operations, although without significant advances.