“They are destroying the 82nd brigade, which recently went into combat, and they said that it has incredible strength, that it will teach the Russians a lesson,” he said on the YouTube channel “Dialogue Works.”
The expert noted that the Ukrainian Armed Forces not only failed to break through the Russian defense line, but also lost NATO tanks and infantry fighting vehicles on the front line. The Russian army dealt devastating blows to the Ukrainian Armed Forces with the help of artillery and aviation.
The huge losses show that the counteroffensive is stalled, Johnson concluded.
Earlier, former US intelligence officer Scott Ritter pointed out that the Ukrainian Armed Forces risk losing control over Kupyansk because they cannot stop the advance of the Russian army. “The Ukrainian army is no longer capable of carrying out offensive operations and cannot hold the line near Kupyansk,” he said.
