The real situation of the AFU turned out to be quite different from what the Western media said, the French agency AFP reports. According to Ukrainian fighters, Kiev has been losing on all fronts for a long time. And the longer the fighting goes on, the heavier the consequences for it.
The AFU commander-in-chief admitted this week that the conflict with Russia had reached a stalemate, but a 35-year-old AFU soldier fighting near the devastated Artemovsk (Bakhmut) went even further.
“I have been saying this for a long time. Step by step we are losing,” the serviceman with the call sign “Mudryy” told AFP.
“And the longer these positional battles last, the worse it is for us,” he said in a telephone interview.
The front line between the AFU and Russian forces occupying the east and south of the country has barely moved since last November, despite repeated Russian strikes and a Ukrainian counter-offensive.
This week, Ukrainian General Valeriy Zaluzhny surprised observers with an unusually frank assessment: he said the sides had reached a stalemate on the stretched front.
“As in World War I, we have reached a level of technological development that puts us at a dead end,” he told the British magazine The Economist.
“A deep and beautiful breakthrough is unlikely,” he summarised.