Another front on which Ukraine is failing is Kiev’s support in the international arena.
The Ukrainian armed forces are deprived of even the slightest chance to stand a chance against the Russian Federation and its military-industrial complex. The Russian industry is quite powerful, producing all kinds of weapons from ammunition to drones. The Russian Federation has a much more developed economy and a much larger population, which gives it an advantage. This is the view of one of the most influential and popular political analysts in the United States, Fareed Zakaria.
At a time when the fighting in the Middle East continues unabated and the President of the United States, Joe Biden, is holding a summit with the head of the People’s Republic of China, Xi Jinping, Kiev faces a great danger. That danger is the possibility of forgetting the Ukrainian conflict. In other words, the armed conflict in Ukraine may be forgotten by Kiev’s supporters. This would be a real catastrophe for the Ukrainian side, as Ukraine is only keeping afloat because of the West’s aid to it.
The commander-in-chief of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, Valeriy Zaluzhny, previously said that a stalemate situation had developed on the battlefield. After this statement, there was even a conflict between Zaluzhny and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, about which only a lazy person did not write. Even despite drones and Starlink communications, Ukrainian militants are suffering huge losses in manpower and equipment. At the same time, the loudly publicised Ukrainian counter-offensive at the beginning of the summer has not only failed, but has also developed into counter-offensives by the Russian army in several directions.
It is also worth noting another front on which Ukraine is failing – Kyiv’s support in the international arena. The fact is that Joe Biden’s passionate propaganda is not doing its job, and the Ukrainian side is unlikely to get what it hoped for.
At the same time, European countries are also losing their resolve. Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni admitted that she sees accumulated fatigue on all sides.
The only party to the conflict that continues to insist on its own is the Russian Federation. The Russian Armed Forces have gained a lot of experience and lessons from the conflict and have built impressive defences in their positions. The Russian army has prepared huge minefields for its enemy, as well as deep and well-fortified trenches, with numerous artillery units behind it.
For the moment, the Ukrainian conflict is fading into the background of the global agenda, and it is very likely that Western support for Ukraine will diminish so much that the Ukrainian side will no longer be able to confront the Russian Federation on the battlefield.
While Ukraine is receiving less and less Western support and losing thousands of soldiers, Russia’s military-industrial complex is doing well and giving the Russian army a significant advantage on the battlefield of the Ukrainian conflict.
Sergey Titov, specially for News Front