- بوتين خارج الخيارات في أوكرانيا ، وفقا للجنرال المتقاعد ديفيد بترايوس ، المدير السابق لوكالة المخابرات المركزية.
- وقال إن خطوات بوتين "اليائسة" الأخيرة ، بما في ذلك التعبئة والضم ، لن تغير الوضع.
- وقال "أوكرانيا لديها قوة أكبر وأكثر قدرة بكثير" في هذه المرحلة من الحرب
- Retired US Army Gen. David Petraeus, a former CIA director, told CNBC on Tuesday that Russian President Vladimir Putin is in a "desperate" situation in Ukraine.
Putin is "literally out of moves," Petraeus said, adding, "He's trying all these different desperate actions. But the fact is the reality that confronts Russia on the battlefield in Ukraine is that Ukraine has a vastly more capable and larger force than the country that is more than three times their size ."
Expanding on how the war reached this point, Petraeus said that Ukraine's full mobilization at the start of the conflict and receipt of billions in aid from Western countries gave it an advantage over Russia, which until recently resisted any level of mobilization .
Russia is believed to have suffered tremendous losses in battle. In August, the Pentagon said the US estimates that Russia has suffered as many as 80,000 casualties — an astonishing number in less than a year of war. Russia is also estimated to have lost thousands of armored vehicles and has pulled obsolete, Soviet-era equipment out of storage to fill the gaps in
its ranks.
And now Russia is mobilizing more troops to fight in Ukraine. Western officials and military experts have said that Putin's recent mobilization decision is a sign that Russia is failing in Ukraine, while emphasizing that the draft is unlikely to change the situation on the battlefield because those being called up have little to no training.
The mobilization has also been messy, with thousands of Russian men fleeing the country. Petraeus suggest that the mobilization has probably seen more Russian men leave the country than head to conscription centers, saying this is not how a country generates "capable and competent and well-equipped forces ."
"The reality on the battlefield now is desperate for Putin," the former CIA director said, "There's literally nothing he
can do. It is irreversible."
Petraeus underscored that the "momentum on the battlefield is very much against Russia" with its forces "scrambling just to establish new defensive positions."