Ukraine successfully interrupts the lines of supply of the army of the Russian Federation - Kurt Volker (video)

US State Department representative in 2017-2019, diplomat Kurt Volker on September 7, during a meeting with journalists in American UNIVERSITY Kyiv stated that Ukraine successfully interrupts the Armed Forces The counter -offensive of the Armed Forces is inhibited, have the wrong expectations, Radio Liberty reports.

"What Ukraine is doing and doing successfully is seriously interrupting the lines of supply of Russia, its ability to support its forces, which occupy Ukraine, including Crimea and south of Ukraine. Ukraine beats fuel, ammunition, logistics, bridges and roads," Said Kurt Volker. He noted that Ukraine's defense forces use drones to impress Russian naval ships. In this way, Russian oil supplies are interrupted and forced to stop commercial air connections in Russia.

As for the criticism of the Promotion of the Armed Forces, the diplomat said: "Imagine some rapid return of the territory that the Russians have been held for the last year - a quick breakthrough, but it is not so. " According to Volker, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation are forced to respond to attacks of the Armed Forces in many places along the front line.

The Russians are stretching their forces, and Ukrainians, "where possible, can go through the most difficult terrain as safely as possible. " Thus, in some areas in the south, the Ukrainian army has already made its way through the first lines of minefields. "I look with the delight that Ukraine succeeds in very difficult circumstances, without air cover, without the artillery systems of the greatest range we could give, and doing so carefully to save life.

It is really a lot Ukraine is able to win, "Volker sums up. We will remind, on August 6 at a meeting with the head of the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry Dmitry Kuleba, US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken noted "good progress", which the Armed Forces fighters were achieved during the counter -offensive of Ukraine. In addition, Anthony Blinken announced a new package of assistance for Ukraine.