The Russian army is now launching an offensive with great momentum, and the Ukrainian army is retreating steadily. US media CNN said that many US officials are "losing confidence" in Ukraine because they believe that Ukraine has performed very poorly in recent days and that even if it provides more and more advanced weapons, the country will not be able to regain all the territories occupied by Russia. territory. Ukraine's biggest backer is the United States. If even the United States loses confidence in it, Ukraine will be in a very dangerous situation. Russian President Putin ’s press secretary Peskov said at the Kremlin that as long as Ukraine surrenders, the Russian military will end its operations.
Many high-level officials in the U.S. government are "losing confidence" in Ukraine. They believe that even if they work with NATO allies to provide Ukraine with heavier and more advanced weapons, the Ukrainian troops will suffer casualties too quickly, and the new weapons they add cannot keep up with the loss. The country has been unable to achieve its insistent goal of regaining all territory occupied by Russia in the past four months. U.S. officials told CNN that advisers to President Joe Biden have begun internal discussions that Ukrainian President Zelensky may need to adjust his definition of "victory" and accept that the territory may "irreversibly shrink."
The situation in the Russian-Ukrainian war has taken a turn for the worse in recent times. The Russian army has captured many strategic points, while the Ukrainian army has suffered staggering losses while defending the Russian army's attack on the Donbas region. Although the Western world continues to provide it with weapons, equipment and ammunition, and many NATO countries also provide personnel training for it, it still cannot keep up with the rate of losses and consumption of the Ukrainian army on the front line. Many U.S. military personnel agree that under such circumstances, Ukraine is unlikely to launch a large-scale counterattack after acquiring more Western weapons and receiving relevant training, as Zelensky said, especially since the Russian army may also obtain troops in the future. Replenish.
A U.S. congressional aide familiar with the situation also pointed out that it is “not inevitable” that Ukraine will eventually face territorial shrinkage. The key remains whether the West can provide sufficient support; some U.S. government officials believe that Ukraine may once again have a good fight. The turnaround of the war broke the pessimistic predictions of the outside world, just like the use of drones in the early days of the war to steal the limelight, but this is just a good wish. Now that the Russian army's rapid offensive has frightened NATO, NATO decided to increase its defense forces on the eastern front, expanding the number of troops from 1,000 to 3,000-5,000.
In the early days of the war between Russia and Ukraine, Ukraine used drones to effectively destroy Russian armor and logistics convoys. However, they were frequently shot down later, forcing Ukraine to greatly reduce its flying sorties. After Russia improved its air defense system , it formed multiple large-scale protective networks with S-300, " Beech", Tor-M2 and "Armor" air defense systems, limiting the combat effectiveness of Ukraine's only drones. Ukraine has always relied heavily on drones to fight the Russian army. Faced with this situation, there have been differences among Ukrainian frontline troops, pilots and senior generals on whether to continue to use drones.
Nowadays, the Ukrainian army has more pilots than fighter planes, and it urgently needs the support of fighter planes from European and American countries to carry out complex tasks against the Russian Air Force. However, even if the United States and Europe can provide some advanced fighters, Ukraine will still face huge risks. One of them is that pilots go directly into battle without receiving sufficient training to understand the flight characteristics and advantages of each fighter plane. The other is to plan relevant tactics, which will take several months, which NATO cannot afford.
Now the Russian army has captured many strategic locations in eastern and southern Ukraine and is actively advancing, putting strong pressure on the Ukrainian army's frontline and Zelenskiy's government, and even issued a slogan that as long as the Russian army surrenders, it will stop operations. NATO has no intention of expanding military aid. It seems that Europe and the United States no longer want to believe Ukraine's rhetoric.
