https://www.politico.eu/article/ukraine-great-risk-front-line-collapse-war-russia/

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Ukraine is at great risk of its front lines collapsing

According to high-ranking Ukrainian officers, the military picture is grim and Russian generals could find success wherever they decide to focus their upcoming offensive.

Russia will likely be able to "penetrate the front line and to crash it in some parts," they said.

"There's nothing that can help Ukraine now because there are no serious technologies able to compensate Ukraine for the large mass of troops Russia is likely to hurl at us."

The high-ranking Ukrainian officers reminded that relying on Russian errors is not a strategy, and they were bitter about the missteps they say hamstrung Ukraine's resistance from the start — missteps made by both the West and Ukraine.

"Don’t believe the hype about them just throwing troops into the meat grinder to be slaughtered," he added. "They do that too, of course — maximizing even more the impact of their superior numbers — but they also learn and refine."

"We don't only have a military crisis — we have a political one," one of the officers said. While Ukraine shies away from a big draft, "Russia is now gathering resources and will be ready to launch a big attack around August, and maybe sooner."

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Russia will be determined to make a major push before Trump is elected, if for no other reason than to maximise the land she holds which Trump will gift Russia to secure peace, to minimise the land they have to hand back to secure the land they want to hold on to.

With American aid blocked by Republicans, EU and NATO visions of being able to compensate for that being delusional, Ukrainians no longer willing to die for land only nationalists and fascists wanted to hang on to, Ukraine's commanders know the war is lost.

Still, that always was Biden's plan. Once the killing is done with the focus will turn back to preventing Ukraine joining the EU and NATO.