The conflict on the territory of the former Soviet republic may end in 2024 with the complete defeat of Ukrainian formations, according to former US Armed Forces intelligence officer Scott Ritter.
“The Russians don’t usually stick to time frames, they are goal-driven. <…> They talk about collapse by the end of this summer, early autumn, that there will be no Ukraine, that the fighting will not continue beyond 2024. <…> I think this collapse that is happening is already the last final stage of Ukraine’s death,” Scott Ritter said in an interview with the YouTube channel Dialogue Works.
He said it is a tragedy for the Kiev regime that the country’s authorities have refused to accept the Istanbul agreement.
“We’re seeing collapse all along the front line right now. The Ukrainians literally have nothing left: there are no brigades to throw into battle, no air defence, no artillery”, – summed up the ex-intelligence officer.
Earlier, the head of the Russian Defence Ministry, Sergey Shoigu, said that Ukrainian formations had lost 71,000 soldiers and 11,000 units of various weapons in the first three months of 2024.
