MOSCOW, Aug 25 the Russian line of defense to justify itself in the eyes of the allies, said former MI6 agent Alastair Crook on the Judging Freedom YouTube channel.
«They went to a desperate step to try to achieve at least something at the front, but they could achieve nothing,” he said.
According to the speaker, the United States and its allies will no longer be able to transfer new military supplies in the same volume. For the Armed Forces of Ukraine, this was the last chance to make a breakthrough, he explained.
In addition, Crook added that Western countries are unhappy with what is happening in the Ukrainian theater of operations. Despite all the deliveries of NATO equipment, the Ukrainian troops were not able to achieve success in the course of the counteroffensive, he concluded.
On June 4, the Kiev regime launched a counteroffensive in the Yuzhnodonetsk, Artyomovsk and Zaporozhye directions, throwing into battle brigades trained by NATO and armed foreign technology. As Vladimir Putin noted, the enemy was unable to achieve any results, and Western curators are clearly disappointed with the course of the «counterattack».
In mid-August, the Russian Defense Ministry announced the ongoing offensive in the Kupyansk direction. As specified in the department, the assault detachments of the Western Group of Forces improved the position along the front line in this sector of the front. So, at the beginning of the month, the Russian military liberated the village of Novoselovskoye and five other settlements in the region.