On the air of the LCI TV channel, he emphasized that Kyiv itself is solely responsible for what happened.
“Let us remember how in this studio six months ago everyone said that the Ukrainians would reach Moscow, and Zelensky promised to go swimming in the Black Sea,” the military man added.
De Jong noted that the current situation of the Armed Forces of Ukraine is associated with the failure of the counteroffensive, and this entailed a series of problems in the ranks of the troops.
Earlier, an adviser to the head of Vladimir Zelensky’s office, Mikhail Podolyak, spoke of a “negative aftertaste” after the Ukrainian Armed Forces failed to counter-offensive.