Ukraine will win the war against Russia “before the end of the year”, according to Ukrainian military intelligence

the war in Ukraine will reach a “tipping point” in August and Russia it will be defeated “before the end of the year”, predicted the head of Ukrainian military intelligence, assuring that kyiv will manage to recover all its territory.

Victory “will not be easy”, but “it will come”, declared Kyrylo Budanov in an interview on British television Sky News on Friday. During the broadcast, he appeared calm and was “optimistic” about the current evolution of the conflict.

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“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.

the war over, “We will restore Ukrainian power in all the territories that we lost, including Donbas and Crimea,” he assured.

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The statements come as fighting intensifies in the region of donbas (east), 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 heavy losses in men and weapons”, especially since Ukraine knows “everything”, including its military plans.

At the military level, the Ukrainian Minister of Defense estimates that Russian forces have lost more than 26,000 men, 199 planes and nearly 1,200 tanks since the start of the invasion on February 24. However, there are no independent data.

Budanov also assured that the Russian president Vladimir Putin He was in “very poor physical and psychological condition” and even said that he was “very ill” and suffered from “several illnesses 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.

Source: Elcomercio

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