President Zelenskyy’s optimism has always been one of Ukraine’s strengths since the war began in order to keep its troops’ morale up, but a military expert believes he went too far on Monday when he mentioned that the war would end by the end of the year could .
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“He’s very optimistic, maybe a little too much. Ukrainian forces were bombed for more than 70 days, severely reducing their ability to respond. They have completely exhausted their artillery resources,” said Simon Leduc, a former military intelligence officer.
The battle between David and Goliath continues. On the one hand Russia is bombing non-stop and on the other hand there is not enough ammunition to even think about a reaction.
“The Ukrainians mentioned that about 1,000 shells fall every hour. It’s a lot of artillery falling non-stop and soldiers receiving the shots without being able to respond,” he said.
The Russian attacks, in which 16 people have been killed in a shopping center so far, were primarily aimed at destroying military equipment, the specialist believes.
“We don’t send such bombs for fun because Russia doesn’t have many of them. If these bombs are going to be sent, it’s not to cause deaths in a mall in a town the size of Sherbrooke. This is possibly because weapon systems were hidden there. Ukraine often uses this type of strategy to hide its defense system in places where, in the event of an attack, there would be repercussions on the dissemination of the message in the world media,” emphasizes the former military intelligence officer.
Watch his full interview in the video above.