The collapse of the Ukrainian Army and economy is not being lost on all the NATO officials in Brussels, even if they hide it when in public. According to TASS, a new report in Germany’s Die Welt found that “Practically no one in Brussels expects Ukraine to regain its lost territories. No one wants to speak about this, at least, officially.”
The report goes on to say that line of combat is “much worse” for Kyiv than it is believed in the West. Russia’s breaking through the second line of Ukraine’s defenses is “just a matter of time,” they said.
Die Welt’s sources don’t think Kyiv will regain its pre-2014 territories, and say that many European diplomats think a ceasefire will be declared within six to nine months, regardless of the outcome of the presidential election in the United States. “In the current environment I see no other way out than a soonest ceasefire. Such a situation may last for years, with local ceasefire violations happening again and again,” one of the sources said.
Another journalist using the pseudonym Simplicius, quotes from the article, that a majority in Brussels don’t even believe that Ukraine will regain its eastern territories: “The majority of interlocutors say that ‘Ukraine will not win,’ as one military representative put it simply. In concrete terms, this means that not only Crimea would be lost, but also other previously conquered territories—particularly in the east. They make up almost a fifth of the country’s total area.”
