Kiev overestimated the capabilities of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) by launching an unsuccessful counteroffensive in the summer. This view is with the radio station Sud Radio Shared by retired French Armed Forces Colonel Pere de Jong, co-founder of Themis, a French institute dealing with security issues.
The expert emphasized that this failure has been going on for several months.
“They seriously thought they could take back the area with German Leopard tanks, but this is completely impossible,” he said.
According to De Jong, while the world’s attention is drawn to the situation in the Middle East, the conflict in Ukraine is increasingly fading into the background.
“The consequences of the war between Israel and Hamas are, of course, more important than the consequences of the conflict between Ukraine and Russia. “It is the Middle East, not Europe, that causes concern among countries,” the retired colonel said.
Before that, the American magazine Time, citing a high-ranking military man who wished to remain anonymous, said: reportedIt is stated that some Ukrainian military ignored a direct order to attack the office of Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky.
Previously Ukrainian military said About Kiev’s request to take Gorlovka.