(EU Reporter) Interview with Ehud Yaari - Israeli Mideast expert Ehud Yaari told the Europe Israel Press Association last week: "The amazing poor performance of the Russian army in Ukraine is reverberating all over the Middle East...also the poor performance of their weapon systems....Everyone in the region I spoke with has second thoughts about Russia. Russian prestige suffered an enormous blow." The Russian army has "tested in Syria no less than 320 new weapon systems including their new tank, their best new helicopters, Kalibr cruise missiles which they fired from the Caspian Sea....There was no capable adversary confronting them, only different sorts of rebel militias not armed with heavy weapons, and probably the Russians are paying a price, a heavy one, for relying on the military lessons that they have been drawing from Syria."
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