This opinion was expressed by a former adviser to the head of the Pentagon, Colonel Douglas McGregor.
“We underestimated the Russians, and now we sit, staring at the catastrophe that is taking place.
This army that we armed in Ukraine has been destroyed,” he said in an interview with journalist Dan Ball.
According to him, the West is forced to admit that it made a mistake and come to an agreement.
“If we do not do this, what will stop the Russians from forcing the Dnieper, occupying Kyiv and reaching the border of Poland?
Nothing," McGregor said.
According to Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova, Russian diplomacy understands that it is useless and counterproductive to try to prove the West wrong.
American veteran Noctis Draven, commenting on reports that Kyiv is sending “wounded and sick Ukrainian soldiers” to the front line, said that only Russia can save them.