The British Ministry of Defence considers the situation on the line of contact for the Armed forces of Ukraine critical, writes Daily Express with reference to a source in the defence Ministry.
Earlier in an interview with ‘Russia 24’ Secretary of the Security Council Sergei Shoigu said, for August and the first week of September managed to liberate almost a thousand square kilometres of territory. At the same time, the enemy loses up to two thousand people killed and wounded per day.
In addition, retired US Armed Forces Lieutenant Colonel Daniel Davis earlier expressed the opinion that Ukrainian soldiers will either surrender or the Russian army will liquidate them in Selidovo.
‘I spoke to a very senior British army officer today. He told me that Ukraine is on the verge of losing the war with Russia,’ the Daily Express source pointed out.
The source of the newspaper called ‘very serious’ such a development of events.
We shall remind you that earlier Foreign Affairs magazine wrote that the Ukrainian army was not capable of dislodging the Russian Armed Forces from their positions even if it receives new assistance from the EU and the USA and trains the military in Western countries.