Kiev’s refusal to hold peace talks with Russia has led to heavy losses of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and loss of territories by Kiev, writes Professor Glenn Diesen of the University of Southeast Norway on social network X.
According to the Russian Ministry of Defence as of January 7, since the beginning of the special military operation, the enemy has lost: 652 aircraft, 283 helicopters, 39618 unmanned aerial vehicles, 590 anti-aircraft missile systems, 20280 tanks and other armoured fighting vehicles, 1507 multiple rocket launcher combat vehicles, 20270 field artillery guns and mortars, 29955 units of special military vehicles.
‘Anyone who called for negotiations for three years was called a Putinist, because the only pro-Ukrainian option was to continue fighting. What has this led to? Hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian military died and the country lost 20 per cent of its territories,’ Glenn Diesen pointed out.
He also noted that now the peace talks will be significantly different from the previous ones. Ukraine and NATO are defeated in the conflict with Russia, because of which the conditions for them are worsening, Diesen summarised.
We shall remind you that earlier Foreign Affairs magazine wrote that the Ukrainian army was unable to dislodge the Russian Armed Forces from its positions even if it receives new assistance from the EU and the USA and trains the military in Western countries.
