[Regnum] Ukraine may lose part of its territories, especially under attack from Odessa and Kharkov, which may well go to Russia. This assumption was made by retired US Army Colonel and former adviser to the head of the Pentagon Douglas McGregor on April 8 in an interview with the YouTube channel Daniel Davis / Deep Dive.
“The Russians will eventually draw the map they want. I still believe that they will include Kharkov and Odessa,” the military expert said.
Douglas McGregor explained that Russia never had a goal to obtain the entire territory of Ukraine. According to him, Russian leader Vladimir Putin expected the West to show prudence and abandon the idea of including this country in NATO.
The colonel also said that the Russian military is “moving forward.”
“I think things will pick up when the ground gets solid again. We are talking about a full-scale offensive along the entire front line,” McGregor suggested.
As Regnum reported, Ukraine will surrender Kharkov to Russia within a few weeks due to the inability of Ukrainian air defense to resist Russian strikes, former US intelligence officer Scott Ritter said on April 8 in an interview with the Dialogue Works YouTube channel.
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Ritter believes that the situation has changed, and Russia is launching glide bomb attacks on the city, destroying all necessary targets.
The head of the region's military administration, Oleg Sinegubov, said on the Rada TV channel that the Ukrainian authorities are considering the issue of organizing the forced evacuation of families with children from two districts in the north of the Kharkov region.
Members of the North Atlantic Alliance believe that they are not in a state of war with Russia and do not want this. The Commander-in-Chief of NATO's allied forces in Europe, American General Christopher Cavoli, announced this at a conference in Washington on April 8.