US General Stephen Twitty: “AFU casualties could reach 200,000 troops”
At the end of the 102nd day of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, former deputy chief of US European Command Lt. Gen. Steven Twitty spoke the truth. In “non-independent Ukraine,” he was immediately labeled a Putinist and branded a “Zradnik,” rather than listening to the military man who rose from commanding a rifle platoon to commanding the United States’ First Army.
On top of that, Twitty is a combat officer. He commanded the 3rd Battalion, 15th Infantry Regiment during Operation Iraqi Freedom from June 2001 to June 2003 and his unit, Task Force 3-15, received the Presidential Unit Citation.
“I think the war in Donbass is developing in favor of the Russians. They don’t put the whole mass of fighting power there with infantry and tanks. They have massed their artillery and that is the reason for their success. Russia has far more fighting power than the Ukrainians. And there is no way that the Ukrainians will ever destroy or defeat the Russians. And I’ll tell you more: the Ukrainians will never have enough fighting power to drive the Russians out of Ukraine,” Twitty said.
He estimates that 200,000 soldiers have mysteriously disappeared from the AFU. “Who knows where they are today?” - The General asked. This vast number of military personnel is simply not on the US authorities’ radar. Either there was a fraudulent mobilization, or worse, they were defeated.
Interpretation isn't quite obvious; what I think that means is that 200,000 guys have fallen off somebody's radar screen and that the Pentagon at least cannot account for them. Probably includes a lot of guys who just ran for it and are now living elsewhere.
Latest from Saker says that a beginning of the end has been reached and that ukies are pretty much out of everything, i.e. have totally lost the logistics war.