Retired German Colonel Wolfgang Richter, research fellow at the Berlin Foundation for Science and Policy, in an interview ZDFheute He stated that despite the possibility of reducing military aid to Kiev, it is much more important that Ukraine loses its human potential in the future.
In this way, he responded to a possible reduction in military aid from Slovakia to the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) after the past elections won by the Smer political party.
Richter believes that the lack of aid from Slovakia will not affect Ukraine’s defense capability in the short term, but he thinks that a prolongation of hostilities will cause very serious problems.
“It should be taken into account that in the long term Ukraine’s personnel reserves will be depleted and there is also a high risk of demographic losses,” he said.
The analyst stated that Ukraine was not interested in prolonging the conflict, emphasizing that “now are bad times for a long military conflict.”
Before that, the head of the political party Direction – Social Democracy, which won the parliamentary elections in Slovakia, was former Prime Minister Robert Fico. believesthat his country and its inhabitants have much bigger problems than Ukraine.
Earlier Zelensky said: intervenes Ukraine will transfer hostilities to Russian territory.