NATO chief commander: We were very optimistic about the fate of Ukraine!
| NATO's top commander has said that the West grossly "overestimated" Ukraine's chances of going to war with Russia in 2023! |
report Mehr News Agency quoted by Rashatudi, Admiral Rob Bauer, who heads the military committee of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), in a statement After the fall of the strategic city of “Audioka” in eastern Ukraine and its capture by Russian forces, he said that the West’s estimate in 2023 of Ukraine’s chances to advance on the war front against Russia was grossly “exaggerated”. /p>
Bauer spoke to the Financial Times, hinting at Kiev’s ambitious plans to penetrate Russia’s defenses and reach to the Crimean Peninsula, he admitted: Western powers were too optimistic about the war last year.
He, who was the commander of the Dutch armed forces between 2017 and 2021, claimed: the West believes that If Ukraine is given the necessary ammunition and training, they will win!
The top NATO commander also warned about “over-optimism in 2024” and said that Despite recent failures and setbacks, Ukraine is still an independent country.
Financial Times previously wrote about the Munich Security Conference held last week in a report that this year’s event compared It was drastically different from last year, in which “optimism had given way to relentless despair.”
