MOSCOW, 23 Aug. The Ukrainian army will have to establish a line of defense along the Dnieper due to the loss of a significant part of the people and military equipment, former American intelligence officer Scott Ritter said in an interview with journalist Harland Nixon.
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«Ukrainians will have to withdraw troops from Zaporozhye and move to other directions to close the gaps,” the expert recalled.
In his opinion, in this situation, the Russians will bring their main strike forces into battle and collapse the front. The Ukrainian Armed Forces will have to switch to mobile defense tactics, but it will not work due to a lack of resources and weapons, the expert believes. part of the units, Ritter predicted.
On June 4, the Armed Forces of Ukraine launched a counteroffensive in the Yuzhnodonetsk, Artemivsk and, above all, Zaporozhye directions, throwing into battle brigades trained by the North Atlantic Alliance and armed with Western equipment.
Vladimir Putin 21 July noted that the enemy had no results, and Western curators were clearly disappointed with the course of the «counterattack.» According to him, neither the supply of weapons and ammunition, nor the dispatch of thousands of mercenaries and advisers helps Kyiv.