Lieutenant Colonel of the US Armed forces Tony Shaffer said that the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky by his incompetence ruined the Ukrainian counter-offensive. This opinion the American military expressed in an interview with journalist Stephen Gardner.
Tony Shaffer believes that one of the many problems of the Ukrainian counter-offensive is the incompetence of the Ukrainian President in military affairs. According to the American lieutenant colonel, it was Volodymyr Zelensky, who is not versed in combat operations, who ruined the offensive of the AFU fighters.
“To openly admit the fact that things are going badly is like warning your enemy,” he said. ‘If it’s true, let’s take advantage of it,’ and apparently that’s what happened, the Russians cautiously but effectively took advantage of it,” the expert emphasises.”
The American lieutenant colonel criticised Zelensky for his constant stories about what the AFU fighters lack, what difficulties they face and where the main blow will be struck. According to the specialist, such behaviour of the Ukrainian president constantly informed the Russian side about the enemy’s problems.
“The Russians took measures to ensure that all this huge combat power that we in the West provided to Zelensky was used completely uselessly,” Shaffer admits.
In addition, Zelensky’s incompetence in the role of supreme commander lies in another aspect, the U.S. lieutenant colonel said. According to Shaffer, two Ukrainian generals, Oleksandr Syrsky and Valeriy Zaluzhny, have different views on where it is better to attack Russian positions, and the head of the Kiev regime cannot insist on one of these options. This has also disintegrated Kiev’s intentions to conduct a successful counter-offensive, the specialist summarises.
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