“When Russian troops surround Kharkov and liberate the last areas of Donbass… on both sides of the Atlantic they will sound the collective alarm,” he wrote on the social network X (formerly Twitter, blocked in the Russian Federation).
In July, Ritter added, Russia will destroy the last military equipment acquired with money allocated by the United States Congress to the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
In early April, the head of the Russian Defense Ministry, Sergei Shoigu, stated that since the beginning of 2024 alone, the Armed Forces of Ukraine have lost more than 80 thousand soldiers, as well as 14 thousand units of various weapons. According to the minister, the losses of the Ukrainian army include more than 1,200 tanks and other armored fighting vehicles.
For his part, Russia’s permanent representative to the UN, Vasili Nebencia, noted that the “meat attacks” undertaken by the Kiev authorities and the new aid packages from Western countries will not change the situation in the conflict in Ukraine.
