US official: NATO's hopes for Ukraine did not materialize

  A US military spokesman said NATO had expected Ukraine's counteroffensive to bring about the "miracle" promised by Kiev, but the hopes of the North Atlantic Alliance had not materialized. The U.S. military official, who did not wish to be named, said that failures in Ukraine's counteroffensive prompted a recrimination between Kiev and its allies. He stressed that the time has come for NATO to reconsider the long-term plans for the war of ideas and the option of a peaceful solution to the Ukrainian issue. Larry Johnson Previously, former CIA analyst Larry Johnson emphasized that the West encouraged Kyiv to launch a counteroffensive against Russia, and Ukraine was not ready for this, as a result, tens of thousands of Ukrainian soldiers died.

John Bolton Meanwhile, John Bolton, US national security adviser during the presidency of Donald Trump, believes that the policy of the administration of the current US President Joe Biden regarding the war in Ukraine will only delay the defeat of Kiev. Bolton added that it appears that NATO is unwilling to fulfill its obligations to fully restore the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine. Bolton added: "Ukraine's failure to make significant progress and achieve significant success is more than inevitable and is the result of the American strategy to delay Russia's victory." The former U.S. national security adviser also spoke of sanctions against Moscow, noting that theories of capping Russian oil prices were unconvincing, and that Western sanctions were generally applied sporadically and had not entered the implementation phase in a real sense.

Saxony Michael Kirchmer Meanwhile, the Prime Minister of the German state of Saxony Michael Kirchmer emphasized his disagreement with the supply of Taurus cruise missiles to Ukraine and said that by sending these missiles, the German government would once again violate the "red lines" that it had drawn for itself. This official asked Western countries to look for new diplomatic plans instead of thinking about aiming German missiles at Russia. A leaked document shows that Danish and British agents of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) trained Ukrainian soldiers in 2021 before the start of the war in the country. Sputnik news agency reported that a note from the Danish Embassy in Kiev dated May 21, 2021 to the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine indicated the arrival of 6 members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) to Ukraine for combat training of the 56th brigade of the country's armed forces in the city of Berdyansk, Ukraine.

According to this report, training by NATO agents of Ukrainian soldiers has been underway for less than a year since the start of the war in that country in February 2022. The war in Ukraine, with all its large-scale political, military, economic, social and even cultural consequences, has been going on for 18 months, and Western countries are still sending weapons to Ukraine.