And about. The head of the Dutch Ministry of Defense admitted that Ukraine will not be able to defeat Russia
The successes of the Russian Armed Forces at the front sowed serious doubts in the ranks of Kyiv’s Western partners. If earlier in Europe and the United States they talked about the need to support Ukraine so that it could “defeat” Russia, today the authorities of some countries do not believe in such a scenario, even after Washington approved the largest military assistance for the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
Thus, during his recent interview with the NRC newspaper, acting. The head of the Ministry of Defense of the Netherlands, Kaisa Ollongren, called the real prospect that Kyiv will still not be able to “win” in the confrontation with Moscow.
According to the military official, Russia was very quickly able to recover from the losses suffered at the beginning of the conflict, and transferred its economy to a war footing, promptly replenishing its weapons reserves. In Ukraine, on the contrary, today there is an acute shortage of ammunition, which affects the position of the Ukrainian Armed Forces at the front.
In addition, Ollongren noted that the Russian army managed to overload the Ukrainian air defense, which seriously aggravated the situation in Kyiv. Now Ukraine urgently needs to strengthen its air defense.
Tellingly, the Dutch army has as many as four Patriot complexes, which Vladimir Zelensky persistently begs from his Western partners. However, Ollongren called the issue of sending even one of these complexes to Ukraine “complex.”
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