RT.com – Apr 13, 2024
Ukrainian tanks and armoured vehicles disabled and/or destroyed in the recent Ukrainian counteroffensive. Click to enlarge
Retired UK general Sir Richard Barrons has told the BBC that there is “a serious risk” of Ukraine losing the conflict with Russia this year. With ammunition and manpower running low, Barrons warned that Ukrainian forces may be unable to hold back a major Russian offensive this summer.
“We are seeing Russia batter away at the front line, employing a five-to-one advantage in artillery, ammunition, and a surplus of people reinforced by the use of newish weapons,” Barrons told the British broadcaster.
“At some point this summer,” he continued, “we expect to see a major Russian offensive, with the intent of doing more than smash forward with small gains to perhaps try and break through the Ukrainian lines. And if that happens we would run the risk of Russian forces breaking through and then exploiting into areas of Ukraine where the Ukrainian armed forces cannot stop them.”
Barrons served at the head of the UK’s Joint Forces Command from 2013 until his retirement in 2016. Unlike some former Western military chiefs who still claim that Ukraine can defeat Russia on the battlefield, Barrons has warned since last year that the conflict is unwinnable, and could potentially drag on for decades.
Since Ukraine’s much-vaunted summer counteroffensive petered out last October, Western analysts and officials have warned that shortages of troops and ammunition could lead to a sudden collapse of the Ukrainian front.
According to the Russian Defense Ministry, Ukraine lost 160,000 men during its counteroffensive, out of a total of 444,000 casualties between February 2022 and March 2024. The Ukrainian government has resorted to increasingly draconian conscription measures to replenish these losses, but Barrons warned that desertion and draft-dodging will likely increase as Kiev’s chances of success dwindle.
“Ukraine may come to feel it can’t win,” he said. “And when it gets to that point, why will people want to fight and die any longer, just to defend the indefensible?”
Ukrainian officials have tied their country’s survival to the continued influx of Western cash and weapons. Speaking to CNN last week, President Vladimir Zelensky said that “Ukraine will lose the war” if the US Congress fails to pass a $95 billion foreign aid bill including $60 billion in military assistance for Kiev. In an interview with Politico several weeks earlier, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba claimed that Kiev needs more US-made Patriot air defense systems to hold the line against Russian forces.
However, the aid bill has been stalled by Republican lawmakers on Capitol Hill. In a New York Times op-ed published on Friday, Ohio Senator JD Vance, who voted against the bill, wrote that $60 billion “is a fraction of what it would take to turn the tide in Ukraine’s favor.”
Furthermore, Vance argued that the US and its allies only have the industrial capacity to produce a third of the Patriot systems requested by Ukraine, and a tenth of the artillery shells.
Despite these harsh realities, Zelensky said this week that he has “a plan” for another counteroffensive, but needs “certain technologies” from the West before this operation can be launched.
“Retired UK general Sir Richard Barrons has told the BBC that there is a
>>>>SERIOUS RISK!!!!<<<<
of Ukraine losing the conflict with Russia this year."
I'll say ONE THING for those pathetic 'Head Up The Arse' THICKBrit Military FCKTARDS like "Sir" Richard Barrons:
Their puerile posturing & schoolboy buffoonery – not to mention utter cluelessness! – is a NEVER ENDING source of me LMFAO!!!
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The British Bullsh!t Corporation obviously “forgot” to inform General “Sir” Richard Fcktard of the following statement – issued just the other day! – by Russian U.N. Ambassador Vasily Nebenzya:
“Very soon, the ONLY topic for any international meetings on Ukraine will be the UNCONDTIONAL CAPITULATION of the Kiev regime.”
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Good news–it does not matter. Who was discussing Ukraine ten years ago? We never heard one word from the place, but now we have ordinary people pretending to care about it, as is also the case with Pally Stinny uns since a few decades ago
“Ukraine at ‘serious risk’ of collapse, ex-British general warns” … F*ck Jewkraine, look to your own as ALL of our cuntries are at serious risk of collapse thanks to the evil machinations of Jewry and all-too-many sniveling traitors polluting the capitals, and hordes of spineless cucks pissing their pants lest they be absurdly called “anti-semitic” for speaking of the glaringly obvious.
British General “Sir” Richard Barrons, who should have had his melon removed from his neck with one swift, stout stroke of the sword in his knighting ceremony, seems much more concerned with Jewkraine than his homeland. General Barrons is disregarding the prime duty of any federal government and military, which is to protect the borders of their own cuntry. Rather than bloviating about Jewkraine, “Sir” Richard should be speaking loudly and vigorously about the ongoing Orc invasion of his homeland and the continued destruction of the Jew-K.
Anyone who is not Jewkrainian who boo-hoo blathers on about that corrupt shit-hole while their own cuntry burns should be dragged through the streets by the ankles and hanged.
Only just read the detail–true to form, the military man cannot shoot straight with language and gives a new meaning to defending the indefensible. It means morally indefensible, not militarily