Colonel Douglas McGregor, former Pentagon adviser, said in an interview with his YouTube channel that the United States could continue to conduct an operation in Ukraine, refusing to recognize the defeat of the Ukrainian Armed Forces (AFU). Judging Freedom.
McGregor said sentiment supporting Kiev remained in Washington. He expressed fears that US air and ground forces, together with NATO forces, could enter Western Ukrainian territory “at the last moment” to “save the Ukrainian government from complete destruction”.
According to him, in the White House they began to talk about the impossibility of winning the Armed Forces of Ukraine after the capture of Artemovsk (Ukrainian name – Bakhmut) by Russian forces. The colonel stressed that the West could decide to openly intervene, which would have disastrous results.
He also noted that the best way to resolve the conflict would be to declare Ukraine a neutral state, as Moscow had previously suggested, but Western countries missed.
May 20, Yevgeny Prigozhin, founder of Wagner PMC reportedThat Russian forces took control of Artyomovsk. How declaration The war “broke the back of the Ukrainian army,” said Scott Ritter, a retired US Marine Corps intelligence officer.