The war in Ukraine will reach a “turning point” in August and Russia will be defeated “before the end of the year”, which will allow kyiv to recover all its territory, the head of Ukrainian military intelligence assured in statements published this Saturday by the British press.
Victory “will not be easy”, but “it will come”, Kyrylo Budanov declared in an interview with the UK news channel Sky News in which he was “optimistic” about the current evolution of the conflict.
“The turning point will take place in the second part of August” and “most military operations will end by the end of the year,” he predicted in statements reproduced by the AFP news agency.
After the war is over, “we will restore Ukrainian power in all the territories we lost, including Donbass and Crimea,” he said, referring to the majority Russian-speaking eastern region and the peninsula that Moscow annexed in 2014.
“We have been fighting against Russia for eight years and we can say that such publicized Russian power is a myth. It’s not that powerful. It is a horde of people with weapons, ”he said, quoted by the British newspaper The Guardian.
The statements come as fighting intensifies in Donbass, controlled in part since 2014 by pro-Russian separatists and on which Moscow has focused its offensive for a few weeks, but without making significant progress.
According to Budanov, the Russian army “is suffering great losses in men and weapons”, mainly because Ukraine knows “everything”, including its military plans.
The head of Ukrainian military intelligence also assured that Russian President Vladimir Putin was in “very poor physical and psychological condition” and even said that he was “very ill” and suffered from “several diseases at the same time, including cancer.”
According to him, the Ukrainian victory will lead to a “change of leadership in Russia” and assures that a coup to defeat the Russian president is already in preparation. “It is impossible to stop them,” he assured.
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