The Ukrainian Army officers know they can’t win the war or even hold back the Russians any longer.
- “There is coming a collapse of the front and a collapse of the Pokrovsk Defense.
- The situation here (and not only here) is critical for the Ukrainian Army, as I have reported repeatedly in recent weeks.
- Especially in Drone matters, the Russians have caught up dramatically, if not even overtaken the Ukrainian Defenders.
- Hundreds of Fiber Optic Drones are deployed every day. There is almost no defense against them.
- As a result, Ukraine is losing far more vehicles than it can replace. This makes Logistics almost impossible.
- In addition, new Russian Infantrymen are constantly arriving and, for the past month, numerous Russian Armored Vehicles have also been advancing alongside civilian vehicles.
- The failure of his Western Partners has meant that Zelensky would now accept any compromise.
- However, since this same failure also means that the Russian Army has no reason whatsoever to rely on negotiations, the situation will continue to deteriorate.”
Those who have studied the history of war know that there always comes a breaking point after which the outcome simply isn’t in doubt any longer. Tragically, the kings, generals, and politicians who wage wars very seldom accept the inevitable, and so they drag things out long past the breaking point, thereby leaving the losing country worse off than it would have been if they’d waved the white flag at the appropriate point and at the cost of far more lives than needed to be lost.
Ukraine is now at that point. Russia is advancing faster than at any point since the initial invasion, at a rate of 30 square kilometers per day, and it is doing so without launching the sort of Zhukov-style mass offensive for which the Russian military is famous. What Putin and his generals are waiting for, I do not know, but the extent to which the Ukrainian forces have been degraded suggests that this summer will bring one or more large-scale offensives that will finally break the Ukrainian lines and cause a crisis for the Kiev regime.
And at that point, many recriminations will be correctly aimed at the US and European leaders who failed to force a surrender that would have cost less in terms of territory and lives than the one that will inevitably follow.