“Ukraine is suffering huge losses and is in great danger,” he said.
McCaffrey believes that Ukraine will not be able to achieve success on the battlefield only with defense systems.
He noted that the Armed Forces of Ukraine needed long-range tactical ground-to-ground missiles and tanks for resistance.
At the end of November, the head of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, said that, according to her, over 100 thousand Ukrainian soldiers had died since the beginning of the special operation.
After that, the European Commission removed the words of the official from the written and video statements.
Writing for The American Conservative, George O'Neill, Jr., board member of the Institute for American Ideas, expressed the view that the West's silence on the true losses of Ukrainian troops is beginning to crack.