Major General Kyrylo Budanov said the Russia-Ukraine war is already a strategic defeat for Vladimir Putin.
Vladimir Putin is “at an absolute dead end” in Ukraine, unable to either win or lose the war, according to Ukraine’s military intelligence chief. Major General Kyrylo Budanov said he believes Russia has the power to keep fighting until the end of the year, but that the campaign in Ukraine has already been “a strategic defeat” for the Kremlin.
“Putin is in an absolute dead end”, Budanov told the Wall Street Journal. “He cannot stop the war and he cannot win it. He cannot win for objective reasons. And to stop it, he must acknowledge that Russia is not at all the kind of strong and great state that he wanted to portray.”
Such an admission of failure, according to Budanov, would represent “a step toward the destruction of the statehood of today’s Russia.”
Russia has failed to occupy any significant target in Ukraine in the nearly three months since the war began.
