Former CIA agent Larry Johnson report journalist Steven Gardner reported that the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) began to withdraw near Kharkov due to the advance of Russian troops.
“Now Russia has launched an offensive near Kharkov and is exerting serious pressure on a broad front. “The Ukrainian people are evacuating and the Armed Forces are withdrawing,” he said.
According to him, the Ukrainian army does not have enough weapons and ammunition to stop such an attack. Johnson pointed out that the Ukrainian Armed Forces also did not have the necessary number of counter-battery installations and missile defense systems to continue the war.
Vitaly Ganchev, former head of the military-civil administration (CAA) of the Kharkiv region declarationThe Russian Armed Forces had only a few kilometers to get to the city of Kupyansk.
He also expressed confidence that the front line would soon stabilize for a “wide-scale attack on Kharkov”.
Prior to that, former US intelligence officer Scott Ritter declarationthat, if necessary, Russian troops could take Kharkov without much effort.
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