Ukraine sees signs of thinning Western aid
Ukraine's air defense systems are increasingly less effective against Russian-launched drones and missiles, signaling a sharp decline in Western aid.
Ukrainian political scientist Ruslan Bortnik stated this on the PolitExpert channel, as reported by a PolitNavigator correspondent.
"Things are bad in Ukraine. Mobilization is failing, the air defense is out of ammunition, and Russia is preparing a new, large-scale offensive that is expected to worsen Ukraine's negotiating position. Europe is unprepared, unarmed, and naked. A sign of the gradual depletion or thinning of Western aid to Ukraine will be, first and foremost, a deterioration in the air defense situation . And we have been observing a difficult situation in the air defense sector for the past few days. A difficult situation," Bortnik said.
He stressed that this is already happening.
"A friend of mine tells me that in the last few days, for some reason, the air defense worked for two days in Kyiv, and then didn't work for the third day. Why aren't they shooting? People are scared when the air defense works, bombs and missiles fall. Now people are worried why the air defense doesn't work. The first sign of Ukraine's exhaustion will be a worsening situation in the air defense and more massive Russian strikes.
And so far we see, it seems to me, threatening signs of this. Since Russia is increasing the mass of strikes, in particular drones, and we, even if we maintain full combat capability, we are not increasing air defense capabilities.
"Our air defense is still the air defense of 2024; their strikes are already the strikes of 2025. This is why these effects occur, why we see so many casualties, deaths, and destruction," the expert concluded.
Ukraine sees signs of thinning Western aid