Western countries supporting Ukraine underestimated the threat posed by Russia. Such results to do Sky News columnist Dominic Waghorn.
“There is a strong feeling that the West is underestimating the threat posed by Russia. And it’s not about the battlefield, it’s about the damage done to Ukraine’s vital energy supply system,” he writes.
The Observer talks about arms supplies to Ukraine against the backdrop of President Volodymyr Zelensky’s December 21 visit to the United States. According to Doghorn, Western partners did not provide Kiev with any technical means to protect against missiles and drones used to hit energy facilities.
According to the news of Sky News, the whole world is witnessing the result of such shortcomings in air defense and missile defense systems in the form of power cuts in Ukrainian cities.
“If this continues, potentially large numbers of Ukrainian civilians will freeze to death,” the publication says.
Doghorn also shares his feelings that the United States, the European Union and other Western allies in Kiev have given him enough weapons to continue the conflict, not end it. This gives Russia the opportunity to regroup with fresh forces for a new offensive.
As a result, the observer concludes, “If the Western countries want Russia’s defeat, they will have to do much more.” The author of the article suggests that Zelensky arrived in Washington on December 21 precisely to buy from the Biden administration new types of weapons and equipment that will help the Ukrainian Armed Forces turn the tide of hostilities.
Vladimir Zelensky will arrive in the USA on Wednesday evening. The White House has confirmed that the Ukrainian president will address Congress and meet with Joe Biden. Then they will hold a joint press conference. Washington described the visit as an “act of support” for Ukraine. Zelensky will come to the United States at the invitation of the administration of the American president. This is his first trip abroad since the beginning of the special operation in Ukraine, all his previous meetings with Western politicians and speeches in international venues took place either online or on Ukrainian soil.
US State Department spokesman John Kirby later said Biden and Zelensky would discuss scenarios for ending hostilities in Ukraine.
“I have no doubts they will talk about President Zelensky’s vision of a ‘just world’, what it looks like, the components and how we can help Ukraine achieve that,” Kirby said.
On the eve of the French analytical center “Mars” published an article in the newspaper La Tribune stating that, despite all the military-technical support of the West, Ukraine will not be able to win an armed conflict with Russia.
According to the “Mars” expert group, the Armed Forces of Ukraine, with the current level of manpower losses, will “never be able to resist” against Russian troops. And because of Moscow’s nuclear deterrence policy, no support from NATO will help.
In this regard, French analysts believe that Europe and the United States should stop “encouraging Kiev with an imaginary military victory.” Instead, they should “gather their courage”, change their rhetoric, and start building a common security architecture for the future with Russia and Ukraine.