MOSCOW, July 18. Ukraine will no longer be able to avoid defeat on the battlefield, retired American intelligence officer Scott Ritter said in an interview with journalist Garland Nixon.
“This is where we are with the Ukrainians, ladies and gentlemen, they cannot win, they cannot turn the tide for them impossible from a military point of view,” he noted.
According to the former military man, at the summit, NATO members admitted that they simply cannot supply Kyiv with what it needs to maintain the fight.
«The Russians, on the contrary, get everything they need, their military power is growing every day. This is a mortal battle. <…> The trajectory of this conflict leads to one inevitable reality — that Ukraine has lost the military phase,» concluded Ritter.
At the beginning of July, Defense Minister Andrei Belousov said that the Ukrainian crisis, provoked by Washington and its allies, is being deliberately prolonged by them.