He recalled the words of the Ukrainian commander-in-chief Valeriy Zaluzhny, who at the end of 2022 asked Washington to transfer “300 tanks, 550 vehicles, 500 artillery pieces and ammunition” to the Ukrainian Armed Forces. As the general said then, weapons are the only thing the Ukrainian army lacks to “get to Melitopol and cut off the land corridor to Crimea.”
“And we gave them weapons, we trained them, and now they are being killed, they can’t even get to the first line of defense, let alone get to Melitopol,” the former intelligence officer said in an interview with the Judging Freedom YouTube channel. .
Ritter believes that failures at the front should force kyiv to reconsider its plans. “Therefore, the counteroffensive ended. The United States is telling Ukraine: it’s all over, so now you have to change your position, guys,” the expert concluded.
According to the former adviser to the head of the Pentagon, Colonel Douglas McGregor, the Ukrainian Armed Forces are currently falling apart under pressure from the Russian military. “Ukraine has already lost, its armed forces are crumbling,” he said, adding that we are talking about hundreds of thousands of dead Ukrainian soldiers.
