The deputy director and spokesman of the General Intelligence Directorate of the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense (GUR), General Vadim Skibitski, has announced to ‘The Economist’ magazine that “wars end with treaties”, so your country “He will not be able to win the war exclusively on the battlefield.” In other words, Ukraine and Russia will have to sit down and negotiate an end to the conflict.
“Even if he managed to push the Russian troops back to the borders (those of 2021), an increasingly distant perspective, the war would not end there (…) talks would be necessary anyway,” explained the officer, who has ensured that these approaches “they will not begin in a significant way until the second half of 2025.”
“The main unknown factor in this war is Europe. If Ukraine’s neighbors don’t find a way to increase military production to help us, then they will be the ones. in the end they will be put in Russia’s sights”, Skibitski has warned. In fact, the officer believes that Russia would take over the Baltic countries (Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania) “in seven dayswhen NATO’s reaction time is ten.”
“We are going to continue fighting”
The officer puffs out his chest and assures that “the Ukraine’s bravery and sacrifice gave Europe a multi-year advantagewith the immediate threat from the once-feared Russian airborne and marine forces having been eliminated, at least for a decade.”
“We are going to continue fighting, we have no other option, we want to live. But the outcome of the war does not depend on us alone […] We are at the limit, we are in the most difficult moment and the Russians They know it because we don’t have weapons. They will begin their offensive at the end of May or beginning of June,” Skibitski indicated.
Russia’s plan is, as the official explained, continue to occupy the Donetsk and Lugansk regions and launch an offensive against Kharkov and Sumi. Skibitski believes that Russia has about 35,000 troops on the border with Kharkov, although Moscow could increase that number to 70,000, a figure that “is not enough anyway for an operation to capture a large city.”
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