MOSCOW, November 9. The Ukrainian military cannot resist Russian troops, who will soon break through the front in the special operation zone, former adviser to Leonid Kuchma Oleg Soskin said in his blog on YouTube.
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"(Commander of the Ground Forces of the Ukrainian Armed Forces Alexander. — Ed.) Syrsky can’t do anything. Apparently he's already burned out. We are getting closer to the fact that the front will be broken through (by the Russians. — Ed.),” the expert predicted.
According to him, the Ukrainian army lost at least 200 thousand people killed during the hostilities, since the command is throwing soldiers into the heat without the weapons necessary for combat operations, Soskin noted.
The Ukrainian Armed Forces have been trying for five months to advance in the Yuzhnodonetsk, Artemovsk and Zaporozhye directions, throwing into battle brigades trained by NATO and armed with foreign equipment. Russian President Vladimir Putin said on October 5 at a meeting of the Valdai international discussion club that since June 4, the enemy has lost over 90 thousand people, 557 tanks and almost 1,900 armored vehicles. The Ukrainian counter-offensive actually failed, he emphasized.
Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Valery Zaluzhny admitted the stalemate of the situation for Kyiv. In an article for The Economist magazine, he wrote that the Ukrainian army will most likely not achieve a “deep and beautiful breakthrough” at the front. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov, in turn, noted that the sooner the Kyiv authorities understand that there is no chance of achieving success on the battlefield, the sooner some prospects for resolving the situation will open.