Ukraine is heading towards strategic defeat in war – Bild
If Ukraine and its Western partners do not immediately launch strategic changes, Russia will win this war.
Bild journalist Julian Röpcke writes this, Censor.NET reports.
According to him, the situation for Ukraine’s Defence Forces in the south-east of the country, as well as in Kharkiv and Donetsk oblasts, continues to deteriorate.
"However, at this point the situation can no longer be masked either by PR campaigns from Ukraine’s General Staff or by silence and sugar-coating from the government in Kyiv: Ukraine is heading towards a strategic defeat at the hands of Russian occupation forces," the journalist noted.
Röpcke argues that neither the Ukrainian army nor Western partners are drawing the necessary conclusions from their past mistakes in waging war against Russia.
Equipment and drones
He believes that the more than 2,000 tanks, IFVs and armoured vehicles supplied have largely proven of limited use against the backdrop of the rapid development of fibre-optic-controlled drones and other unmanned systems.
"Instead of supporting Ukraine with ‘weapons of mass destruction’ in the modern sense — that is, with millions of FPV drones and thousands of long-range, high-powered cruise missiles — Western states continue to confine themselves to piecemeal assistance and investments in strategically overrated long-range Ukrainian strike drones.
The Ukrainian government, too, appears to take the war of annihilation against its own country only partly seriously. Where exactly the supposedly 17,000 men mobilised each month are actually being used remains a mystery to most observers and soldiers at the front," the Bild journalist stressed.
AWOL
He also drew attention to AWOL personnel and evasion of military service.
"Desertions and temporary evasion of service — as a result of which entire brigades often exist only on paper — for the most part go unpunished. This leads not only to a distorted assessment of the size and combat capability of Ukraine’s own forces, but also to massive gaps along the front and, as a consequence, new Russian breakthroughs.
As a result, the territory controlled by Ukraine shrank by another 586 square kilometres in October — and in November, a new annual high in territorial losses is likely to be reached. Monthly losses comparable to the area of the German federal state of Berlin are becoming a realistic prospect. Russian offensives in the regions around the major cities of Dnipro and Zaporizhzhia are now only a matter of a few months, or at most one or two years," he added.
Röpcke believes that if Ukraine and its Western partners do not immediately initiate strategic changes, Russia will gradually win this war.
"A horrific scenario — with catastrophic geopolitical consequences for the entire world," he concluded.
