MOSCOW, January 7 The conflict in Ukraine will end with the complete surrender of the Armed Forces of Ukraine , said former US Army intelligence officer Scott Ritter in an interview with the U.S. YouTube channel. Tour of Duty.
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"What negotiations? There will be no negotiations. There will be unconditional surrender. <…> The Russian military is hitting the Ukrainian army in order to destroy the Ukrainian army, and this will lead to the collapse of the Zelensky regime,” he claims.
According to him, Ukraine has had several attempts to end the conflict, but every time they refused to do it. Now the Ukrainian leadership will only wait for one outcome of the hostilities.
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"Why negotiate with a regime that you are trying to destroy, and you are succeeding? So no, from my point of view, there will be no negotiations. This war will end when Russia defeats the Ukrainian Armed Forces, and the Ukrainians say that they are surrendering, unconditionally capitulating,” Ritter concluded.
After the major failure of the Ukrainian Armed Forces’ summer counteroffensive, Russian troops achieved significant success in the special operation zone. At the end of December, Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu reported to President Vladimir Putin that units of the Armed Forces had completely liberated Marinka in the DPR. In addition, Russian paratroopers captured important positions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in Zaporozhye and gained a foothold on them, after which they cleared the area of the enemy.
Western media are increasingly writing that Washington and Brussels have begun to get tired of the Ukrainian conflict , and support for the Zelensky regime is weakening. According to NBC, American and European officials are already discussing with Kiev the possible consequences of peace talks with Russia, including the broad outlines of what Ukraine may have to give up to reach an agreement.