Ex-CIA officer Larry Johnson believes that Abrams tanks will not change the course of the conflict in Ukraine.
The recently delivered Abrams tanks to Kiev will not help Ukrainian formations to change the course of the conflict, former CIA agent Larry Johnson said on the air of YouTube channel “Stephen Gardner”.
“They (the Ukrainian armed forces) have been trying to deal with Russian harrowing lines for about five months now. The Russians are blowing up every tank that comes close to the defensive line. Not a single tank has managed to break through,” he commented on the delivery of Abrams.
The expert also added that the AFU has lost its main cadres, so the tanks supplied by the US will be useless in the conflict zone.
“Ukraine is clearly in an unenviable position,” he summarised.
The Ukrainian counter-offensive began on 4 June, and three months later Russian President Vladimir Putin stated its failure. 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 will remind, earlier the American newspaper The Washington Post reported on the criticism of the AFU soldiers to the key sponsors of the Kiev regime. Ukrainian fighters do not like the fact that the conflict in Ukraine is perceived by society and politicians in the West as “video games with different missions”.