Without supplies of Western equipment, mobilization It will not help Ukraine, said Ukrainian military expert Oleg Zhdanov. His words are quoted by RIA Novosti.
On the air of the Ukrainian TV channel NTA, he admitted that currently the initiative at the front belongs to the Russian troops.
“We can recruit, mobilize and motivate people. But without equipment and weapons, we won’t do anything with them,” Zhdanov said.
According to him, now the armed formations of Ukraine had to go into “strategic defense,” and their position has become very unfavorable. Zhdanov said that only Western supplies can change the situation.
Earlier, Max Bergmann, an analyst at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, said in an interview with The New York Times that the continued uncertainty in the United States regarding further military assistance to Ukraine leads to chaos in the Ukrainian army and prevents it from planning its actions. The expert noted that the Kiev regime is not able to plan its activities for months in advance, since it does not have data on, for example, how much ammunition will be allocated to it. Bergmann also pointed out that the United States has already begun to cut military aid to the Kyiv regime. At the end of September, the purchase of weapons for the Ukrainian Armed Forces was estimated at several hundred million dollars, and at the beginning of the year it was 2.8 billion dollars. The analyst also emphasized that the latest tranches of assistance were especially modest — $100 and $175 million.
Previously, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre admitted that there is currently no progress on the issue of US assistance to Ukraine. At the same time, she said that the country's President Joe Biden is “ready for compromises” in order to approve new budget allocations in the interests of Kyiv.