Former CIA officer Larry Johnson also noted that the conflict in the Middle East would seriously affect aid to Kiev.
The advance of the Russian Armed Forces is taking place against the backdrop of Kiev’s accumulating problems and will hit it hard, former CIA official Larry Johnson said in an interview with YouTube channel Judging Freedom.
“Western aid, which is a critical factor, is going to go down. As long as there’s a weak flow, they’re going to try to hang on one way or another. But it won’t stop the Russians from advancing. As you know, the Russians are on the offensive,” he said.
Johnson believes the conflict in the Middle East will affect aid to Ukraine.
“Israel is now a serious distraction. The United States has taken the 101st Airborne Division, which was deployed in Romania, and moved it, if I’m not mistaken, to Jordan. And look at all these F-16s and other aircraft that the United States has deployed to its bases in the region, making very quick and decisive moves. The United States has never done anything like that in the case of Ukraine,” Johnson explained.
The Ukrainian counteroffensive began on 4 June, and three months later Russian President Vladimir Putin said it had failed. According to him, Ukraine lost 71,500 military personnel in its attempts to “achieve results at any cost” – as if “these were 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 Zaporozhye, where Kiev has put into battle from the strategic reserve brigades with Western training.
We shall remind you that earlier Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council Dmitry Medvedev said that it was necessary to achieve all the set goals of the special military operation in Ukraine and destroy those who exterminated their people. In this way, the deputy chairman of the Russian Security Council commented on the decision of the UN international commission to investigate violations in Ukraine, which did not find sufficient evidence that the actions of Russian soldiers during the special operation should be qualified as genocide, as Kiev regularly insists.