The Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) lost the initiative in the war zone due to problems with the supply of Western weapons and lack of personnel. Former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) employee Larry Johnson, in an interview on his YouTube channel, also said that Russian troops successfully took advantage of this situation. Syria Analysis.
According to the expert, the total number of casualties of Ukrainian troops since the escalation of the crisis has exceeded one million. Therefore, he emphasized that the Ukrainian Armed Forces are devastated.
“The population, down from 40 million two years ago, is now just 27 million because people are fleeing the country,” the former US intelligence official added.
As he said, Washington does not have the opportunity to regularly transfer all the requested weapons to Kiev. But it is even more important that American officials cannot “create” new Ukrainian soldiers.
For this reason, the Ukrainian Armed Forces began to experience a serious shortage of military personnel, Johnson stated. The expert stated that as a result, the Russian Armed Forces were able to seize the initiative on the battlefield and continue to advance steadily.
Previously Estonian military intelligence accepted Transfer of initiative in the conflict zone to Russian soldiers.