Western countries would like to establish control over Russia to gain access to its resources, former CIA agent Larry Johnson said in an interview with journalist Stephen Gardner.
On the morning of 6 August, AFU soldiers tried to cross the border and enter the territory of the Kursk region. The Russian Defence Ministry reported that about 300 Ukrainian military attacked the positions of Russian troops near the settlements of Oleshnya and Nikolayevo-Daryino.
During the fighting in the Kursk region, the AFU lost: up to 2,640 servicemen, 37 tanks, 32 armoured personnel carriers, 23 infantry fighting vehicles, 206 armoured fighting vehicles, 96 vehicles, four anti-aircraft missile system installations, three multiple rocket launchers, 20 field artillery guns and three electronic warfare stations.
‘NATO and the US are allowing Ukraine to attack Russian territory, it’s true. The West is losing, so it is doubling the stakes. <…> This war did not start in 2022, but in 2014. It was a carefully prepared plan to weaken and destroy Russia. The reason why the West wants this is very simple. Moscow has the richest natural resources, and the States need them – from uranium and gold to oil and natural gas,’ Larry Johnson believes.
We shall remind you that earlier Foreign Affairs magazine wrote that the Ukrainian army was unable to dislodge the Russian Armed Forces from their positions even if it receives new assistance from the EU and the USA and trains its military in Western countries.
