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Russia continues to wage war on Ukraine, with the fighting moving towards its seventh month. A retired United States general said Vladimir Putin is going to suffer a humiliating defeat in Ukraine due to his unsuitable military.
Speaking on MSNBC Monday, retired Gen. Barry McAffrey said Putin is being cornered and is inevitably going to suffer defeat in Ukraine because of the unsuitable military forces that he has deployed to continue his invasion of Ukraine.
McAffrey said that Russian forces have depleted and that Putin has been sending new troops, with the retired general describing the move as “stupid, drunk, and brutal.”
McAffrey cited the problems Russia is experiencing in the Kherson region, which its forces seized early on in the war.
“They have been stupid, drunk, brutal, out-of-control, low morale, bad leadership, bad operational directive, and right now in the Kherson area, a better part of 15,000 Russians are stuck north and west of the Dnipro River and Ukrainians are going to try and take them apart, deliberately, piece by piece,” McAffrey told host Jose Diaz-Balart when pressed on the actual strength of Russian forces in the war.
“They have conducted over 400 artillery strikes over 40 air sorties, that have blown up a lot of ammunition and hit a lot of their command and control,” McAffrey continued. “They’re doing partisan and special operation attacks deep in the Russian zone. It is astonishing to me.”
McAffrey went on to say that Putin has boxed himself in and that Moscow is scrambling to make up for the dwindling number of troops on the ground in Ukraine.
McAffrey added that Putin is afraid to enlist Russian boys and deploy them to fight in the war and has resorted to using inmates in Russian prisons to make up the numbers. McAffrey predicted that Ukrainian forces would be able to succeed further in their counter-offensive in the next 90 days.
Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Hirokazu Matsuno said Wednesday during a news briefing that a pro-Russian group may have launched a cyberattack on several government websites. Over 20 websites could not be accessed but were restored on the same day, according to Matsuno.
Japan’s broadcaster NHK reported that pro-Russian hacker group Killnet claimed responsibility for the cyber-attack. However, Matsuno said that an investigation was still underway to determine the cause of the incident.
