Ukraine will win the war by the end of this year

The head of Ukrainian military intelligence predicts that the war in Ukraine will experience a “turning point” in August and that Russia will be defeated “by the end of the year”, with Kiev promising to recapture all of its territory.

Success will not be “easy,” but in an interview with the British channel Sky News on Friday evening, Kirillo Boudanov said he was “calm” and “optimistic” about the current evolution. Conflict.

He predicts that “a turning point will occur in the second half of August” and that “most military operations will be completed by the end of the year.”

At the end of the war, he promised, “we will regain Ukrainian power in all the territories we lost, including Donbass and Crimea.”

These reports have been particularly violent fighting fury in the Donbass region (east), which has been partly controlled by pro-Russian separatists since 2014, and Moscow has been in the spotlight for weeks without making significant progress.

Mr. According to Putano, the Russian military is “suffering heavy casualties on men and weapons”, especially Ukraine, which knows “everything”, including its military plans.

At the military level, the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense estimates that Russia has lost more than 26,000 men, 199 aircraft and nearly 1,200 tanks since the invasion began on February 24. However, no independent statistics are available.

Mr. Boudanov also confirmed that Russian President Vladimir Putin was “in a very bad physical and psychological condition” and that he was “very ill” and suffered from “many diseases at once, including cancer”.

According to him, the Ukrainian victory will lead to a “change of direction in Russia” and a plot to overthrow the Russian president is already being prepared in Russia. He said it was impossible to stop them.