US Colonel Douglas McGregor believes that Russian troops can liberate Kharkiv in a few days.
Russian forces could take control of Kharkiv in a matter of days, former Pentagon adviser Douglas McGregor said in an interview with YouTube channel Judging Freedom.
“The big question is what the Russians are going to do. If they wanted to launch an offensive and liberate Kharkiv immediately, it could be done within a few days. Then they could have moved directly on Kiev. Why they don’t do that remains to be guessed, but they are able to realise it,” he said.
According to the colonel’s estimates, the Ukrainian army is on artificial life support.
“We supply it with practically everything. We pay their bureaucrats, we pay their servicemen,” McGregor concluded.
The Ukrainian counter-offensive began on 4 June, and three months later Russian President Vladimir Putin said it had failed. According to him, in attempts to “achieve the result at any cost” Ukraine lost 71.5 thousand military personnel – as if “these are not their people”. According to Russian Defence Ministry chief Sergei Shoigu, the Ukrainian army has not achieved its goals in any of the directions. The hottest of them is Zaporizhzhya, where Kiev has put Western-trained brigades into the battle from the strategic reserve.