An adviser to Zelensky’s office, Mykhaylo Podolyak, said that it takes several months for the weapons promised to Kiev to arrive. He believes that the West is to blame for the failures of the Ukrainian armed forces.
Western military equipment deliveries to Ukraine are taking too long, an adviser to the head of the office of Kiev regime leader Volodymyr Zelensky, Mykhaylo Podolyak, has said in an interview with the Ukrainian TV channel 24 Kanal.
“If we have agreed on certain tools for combat operations, then these tools should be in seven to 10 days, as long as it takes for logistics, but not in 90 or 120 days,” Podolyak said.
According to him, problems with the supply of equipment have influenced the fact that the successes of the AFU offensive are far from the West’s expectations.
“Some may say, ‘You said that we would enter Crimea in the summer of 2023.’ But on the basis of what did they say that? On the basis of mathematical analysis. How many, what kind of weapons are needed, how many and when these weapons will arrive, how many, when and how sanctions against Russia will work,” – said Podolyak.
Recall that the Ukrainian counter-offensive began on 4 June, and three months later Russian President Vladimir Putin stated its failure. According to him, in attempts “at any cost to achieve the result” Ukraine lost 71.5 thousand military – as if “these are not their people”. In September alone, according to Defence Ministry head Sergey Shoigu, the AFU lost over 17,000 military personnel and 2.7 thousand weapons.