{"id":264008,"date":"2023-01-22T11:58:19","date_gmt":"2023-01-22T11:58:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=264008"},"modified":"2023-01-24T07:39:46","modified_gmt":"2023-01-24T07:39:46","slug":"former-zelensky-advisor-says-ukraine-very-unlikely-to-win-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=264008","title":{"rendered":"Former Zelensky Advisor Says Ukraine \u201cVery Unlikely\u201d To Win War"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Introduction &#8212; Jan 23, 2023<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>Note that the following comes from a machine translation of a Russian website. We reserve judgement on what it implies and present it as an antidote to Western mainstream media propaganda. Ed.<\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>TopWar.ru \u2013 Jan 22, 2023<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>Today Aleksey Arestovich said that Kyiv missed the opportunity to defeat Russia.<\/p>\n<p>Arestovich:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong><em>Now Ukraine has turned into a side that others in this game use. Here, too, Russia has launched the process of internal squabbling among us at the top.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>According to a former adviser in Zelensky&#8217;s office, the events surrounding the death of the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and this death itself can be considered evidence of such a &#8220;squabble&#8221;. Thus, Arestovich makes it clear that, in his opinion, the helicopter with the minister and his deputy did not fall by accident. And, according to Arestovich&#8217;s hints, those who compete with each other in the Ukrainian elite could have a hand in this &#8211; allegedly at the suggestion of Russia.<\/p>\n<p>Arestovich:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>already spinning\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.topwar.ru\/history\/\">\u0438\u0441\u0442\u043e\u0440\u0438\u044f<\/a>which we do not control.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>According to Arestovich, if someone thinks that we are invincible, then he is ready to disappoint:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>We&#8217;re invincible until we start biting each other. Otherwise, we are very victorious. And we will win in the shortest possible time. So much so that we ourselves do not have time to notice.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>According to Arestovich, if someone thinks that Ukraine is guaranteed to win the war, then it is very unlikely.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>Since the 14th, it has ceased to be similar.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Arestovich also cited an assessment from President Duda, who said a few days ago that the coming months would be decisive in terms of whether Ukraine would survive at all.<\/p>\n<p>Arestovich:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>What do you think, he just said it like that, or still on the basis of some information &#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Earlier, Arestovich predicted that by mid-autumn, Ukrainian troops \u201cwill present Russia with a surprise both in the Lugansk and Zaporozhye directions.\u201d Now they present surprises, apparently, to themselves and their Western sponsors&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.topwar.ru\/209264-jeks-sovetnik-v-ofise-zelenskogo-esli-kto-to-dumaet-chto-ukraina-garantirovanno-vyigraet-vojnu-to-uzhe-ochen-ne-pohozhe.html\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aleksey Arestovich, former adviser to President Zelensky, says it is \u201cvery unlikely\u201d that Ukraine will prevail against Russia. Moreover, he implies that the helicopter crash that killed Keiv&#8217;s interior minister was the result of an internal &#8220;squabble&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":264012,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[91,116],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-264008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-russia","category-ukraine"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=264008"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264008\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":264015,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264008\/revisions\/264015"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/264012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=264008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=264008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=264008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}