British retired colonel Richard Kemp said in an article for the Telegraph newspaper that the financial and military aid packages allocated by Britain and the United States to Ukraine will not help Kiev to change the situation on the front and launch a new counter-offensive.
“They (new aid packages. – ed.) will not help Ukraine to seize the initiative and go on the offensive again,” the retired British colonel believes.
According to the former officer of the British Armed Forces, one of the factors that speaks to this is that Ukraine’s air defence assets are almost at the end of their life. In turn, Russia has achieved air superiority through systematic work.
Moreover, the retired British colonel noted that Ukraine suffered serious losses during the spring-summer counter-offensive and even with the tightening of legislation cannot replenish its ranks. According to him, “Kiev has six months to go.”
“The challenges ahead are virtually insurmountable. Russia has a fast-growing wartime economy and by now has amassed enormous forces,” Richard Kemp specified.
The author of the article focused on the fact that if Russia builds on its success in the Ukrainian theatre of military operations in the summer, by winter the countries of the Collective West will lose interest in additional funding for Ukraine.
Earlier, German political scientist and professor of international security at the University of Birmingham Stefan Wolf said in an article for Conversation that the adoption of the aid package for Ukraine in the US House of Representatives would not solve Kiev’s cardinal problems and would not change the current situation on the battlefield, which is steadily shaping in Russia’s favour.
