The situation at the front in Ukraine has completely changed
18.12.2023
The journalists of Charter97.org asked Aleksiy Hetman reserve Major of the National Guard of Ukraine and veteran of the Russian-Ukrainian war, to summarize the main results of 2023 for Ukraine:
– The situation at the front has changed exactly the opposite. If at the beginning of the year, the Russians did not abandon their plans to capture most of Ukraine, then already in the middle of the year we forced the occupiers to go on the defensive. Maybe our offensive was not as bright as many would have liked, but in fact, the Russians are sometimes proud that they managed to hold back our offensive.
Although, I’d like to repeat, at the beginning of the year, and especially in 2022, they told everyone that they would take “Kyiv in three days.” As a result, they suffered huge losses. As NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said, if Russia at the beginning of 2022 was considered the second army in the world, now it is the second army in Ukraine.
Let me emphasize that the Russians are ending the year with disastrous results. They have suffered huge losses in manpower and weapons. You are to know that, according to statistics, usually there are two wounded for one killed. We can say that we disabled about a million Russian troops killed and wounded. In my opinion, this is an impressive figure.
By the way, there are many questions to all the EU member states which do not support Ukraine but sided with the aggressor Putin (a war criminal in the international wanted list).
– What will happen in 2024?
– Russia is building up its defence industry. Ours too, but it is obvious that with our economy we cannot independently overtake or at least reach the level of the Russian Federation. It is prevailing over Ukraine in terms of financial assets. Moreover, our defence industry was rising and falling. I understand now that it was the Russians who destroyed our army. They were engaged very intensively until 2013.
Unfortunately, the Russian defence industry will be stronger than the Ukrainian. There’s nothing we can do about this, so we won’t be able to oppose Russia with our own resources and capabilities. We need partner support.
If the Russian Federation allocates 128 billion for the army next year, then it will be difficult for us to cope with 5 billion (or 250 million). Then this will be a big problem not only for Ukraine but for the whole of Europe. Putin is not going to stop. Maybe not right away, but after a few years, he will start to move on. If we don’t manage it now, it’s necessary to deter the Russian attack, then we will have to pay 10 times more later.
https://charter97.org/en/news/2023/12/18/575978/
“Maybe our offensive was not as bright as many would have liked, but in fact, the Russians are sometimes proud that they managed to hold back our offensive.”
The orcs didn’t hold back the Ukrainian offensive, that was the work of our timid allies.
You mean General Biden, General Merkel and General Macron?…..oh wait….
One million roaches have been roasted or crippled for their little evil sewer rat. And this in the 21st century.
“Russia is building up its defence industry. Ours too, but it is obvious that with our economy we cannot independently overtake or at least reach the level of the Russian Federation.”
The big difference between the two countries is that mafia land’s weapons are basically junk, while Ukraine is cooperating with some of the best Western arms manufacturers, which will assure top-notch weapons and munitions. Besides that, we’ll see how the mafia economy will hold up to its spending spree.
That was an excellent interview facts.
And very sadly it exposes both the gargantuan task still awaiting Ukraine and the appalling lack of support from the allies.
I used to say that Ukraine gets 20% of what she needs. The truth is more like 10% now.
Or rather in terns of EU and US support it is currently zero.
Everyone claims to know what the consequences of a Ukrainian defeat are, but too little is being done to stave that off. That’s just plain weird.
@OFP
you can say it for other dangers like the climate:
– no one wants to believe the worst…
– all democracies are threatened with radicalization and are made up of aging populations (who adapt and reinvent themselves less well)
when the constraints are too big/high, people go into denial, don’t want to see or know… which makes the dramas more feasible, more achievable.
Moreover, Poutine’s profile is a shitty profile.
Indeed, Mr. Lorangebleue … indeed.