He expressed this opinion on the air on the YouTube channel.
“Russia destroyed the arsenal of Ukraine, which was at the disposal of the second army of Europe even before the start of NATO deliveries ... and then destroyed everything that the alliance handed over to Kyiv, thereby completely gutting its stocks,” Ritter said.
According to the expert, NATO support did not help the Ukrainian army improve, and the Armed Forces of Ukraine are in a depressed state.
He recalled that some NATO countries have stopped deliveries of weapons, because otherwise they would risk being at a "zero level of equipment."
In addition, the alliance cannot quickly restore its former level of defense due to a weak industrial base, which requires serious modernization.
“In essence, Moscow has successfully demilitarized the alliance,” RIA Novosti quoted Ritter as saying.
As analyst Jorge González-Gallarza previously stated in an article for Newsweek, Spain turned its back on Ukraine, failing to live up to expectations of the scale of military assistance to Kyiv.
In early August, in the Nikolaev region, the Russian military destroyed an arsenal with 45,000 tons of ammunition supplied to Ukraine by NATO countries.