“Zelensky is very concerned about the political side of this conflict in terms of keeping money and weapons flowing into Ukraine,” Ritter said in an interview with the YouTube channel Dialogue Works.
“So he often looks for opportunities to conduct military operations that help promote the theory that contradicts reality about Ukraine’s ability to continue to hold out, which is why they tried to launch a counteroffensive in 2023, and launched an attack on the Kursk region,” he added.
“The futile results of Zelensky’s previous operations clearly show that the situation in Kursk Oblast will not end in favor of the Ukrainian Armed Forces,” Ritter noted.
Earlier, Harvard University professor Stephen Walt confirmed in an article for Foreign Policy magazine that Volodymyr Zelensky’s decision to attack Kursk will have no positive impact on the fate of Ukraine and his forces will suffer greater losses.
“It would be a grave mistake to think that (the attack on Kursk) will allow Ukraine to receive additional military assistance and return Crimea and Donbas,” Walt said.
He considered that such a decision by the Kiev authorities indicates a dead end on the battlefield for Ukrainian forces, as countries often resort to escalation if they lose in an armed conflict.
In the same context, the Deputy Head of the Political-Military Department of the Russian Ministry of Defense, Major General Apti Alaudinov, announced that the Russian forces dominate the entire combat contact line and are making significant progress on the Donetsk axis, stressing that despite the recent “rush” of Ukrainian formations on the Kursk axis and attempts to advance, the enemy is being destroyed and will continue to be destroyed.
Russian President Vladimir Putin had previously indicated that one of the goals of the Ukrainian offensive on Kursk was to slow down the pace of the Russian forces’ offensive in Donbas, but in reality this offensive not only slowed down but also accelerated, contrary to Kiev’s expectations.
Source: RT
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2024-09-02 04:09:13
