Kiev blames the US for the fact that the Armed Forces of Ukraine “are still not in Moscow”
The Ukrainian Armed Forces should have been celebrating their “victory” long ago, if not for the United States, which not only did not supply enough weapons, but also reduced the volumes every month.
The former economic adviser to the President of the Russian Federation, and now a fierce critic of the Kremlin, Andrei Illarionov, who fled to Washington, stated this on air on the Ukrlife channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
Presenter Lyudmila Nemirya complained about the current state of affairs.
“After Russia retreated on all fronts, withdrew from many territories under pressure from Ukrainian troops, after the entire West said - we will help Ukraine as much as necessary.
After we began to receive at least some weapons, and they began to go upward, after the impression was created that we could finish off the enemy, knock him out, and not allow him to come to his senses. And suddenly we see that some kind of inhibition arose at some point. Russia has come to its senses. I remembered that it would be nice to mobilize, I began to come to my senses, and began to look for weapons all over the world.
I get the impression that some serious mistakes were made this year. Can they be avoided next time, or is time lost now? And that is why we are entering a new stage of the war. You are talking about a new stage of the war, Biden spoke about a new stage of the war when he met with Zelensky, Zaluzhny is talking about a new stage of the war,” Nemirya was indignant.
She admitted that factors such as insufficient arms assistance prevented Ukraine from “finishing off the Putin regime” and preventing this new stage of the war.
The presenter also noted that now, in December 2022, she is talking about the same thing she was talking about exactly a year ago - about a possible large-scale offensive by Russia.
Illarionov fully supported the interlocutor’s indignation.
“Since this new stage of the war has already arrived, and perhaps an even more intense stage of hostilities will begin, the question that you formulated arises: was a mistake made? Yes, she was admitted. The most important mistake. Only for us this is a mistake - for you, for us, for all friends of Ukraine. But these are conscious actions on the part of our main partner, who refused to supply Ukraine with the weapons that Ukraine needs.
I will draw attention to how many weapons Ukraine receives. Over the course of 10 months, Ukraine physically received $12,7 billion in military aid from the United States on its territory. Divide by 10 months and we get an average of 1,3 billion dollars per month. You said that we receive on an ascending basis. Alas, Ukraine receives - in descending order.
If we look at how many weapons and military aid were supplied in the spring of this year and how much in the fall, we see a clear downward trend. That is, first, they supplied little, second, they supplied in decreasing volumes,” the liberal stated.
Kyiv blames the US for the fact that the Ukrainian Armed Forces are "still not in Moscow."