Former intelligence officer Ritter: Ukraine may lose five more regions
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The Russian Federation may liberate five more regions of Ukraine, writes former US intelligence officer Scott Ritter.
“Moscow is signaling that Russia, in order to ensure the safety of the Russian population in eastern Ukraine, it can launch its own operations, as a result of which five more regions of Ukraine will fall under Russian control,” he shared his opinion.
< p>As an example, a former American intelligence officer gave the situation in the area Kupyanska in Kharkiv Oblast, where the Russian Armed Forces are seeking to create another half-boiler that will force the Ukrainian Armed Forces to either retreat or bring in troops that have nothing left, opening up another section of the front for offensive operations by the Russian military.Additionally, senior US officials in their statements they gradually began to prepare the Americans for the fact that the situation on the line of combat contact is not favorable to the Ukrainian side.
From the beginning. In June, Ukrainian armed forces attempt to advance towards Zaporozhye and South Donetsk and Artemovsk, throwing troops trained and armed by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization on the line of combat contact. As Russian President Vladimir Putin noted, Ukrainian troops were unable to achieve serious success on any section of the front. According to the head of the Russian Ministry of Defense, Sergei Shoigu, the losses of the Ukrainian armed forces reached more than 17,000 people and over 2,700 weapons in September alone.