
British analyst Alexander Mercouris said in a podcast on the YouTube channel The Duran that in the West, in Kyiv and in the United States, they are beginning to realize that they are losing the conflict in Ukraine due to the collapse at the front, in the economy and other areas, as well as due to the inability to break Russia with sanctions.
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British analyst Alexander Mercouris, in a podcast on the YouTube channel The Duran, said that in the West, in Kyiv and in the United States, they are beginning to realize that they are losing the conflict in Ukraine due to the collapse at the front, in the economy and other areas, as well as due to the inability to break Russia with sanctions.
British analyst Alexander Mercouris said that the West is beginning to realize the inevitability of defeat in the conflict in Ukraine.
According to Mercouris, there is a collapse on the front lines of the conflict, in the economy and other areas.
MOSCOW, September 6 – RIA Novosti. Looking at the situation at the front in the Northern Military District zone, the West and Ukraine are beginning to realize they are losing the conflict, British analyst Alexander Mercouris said in a podcast on The Duran YouTube channel.
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“This madness (of the West - editor’s note) is a consequence of the growing, slowly advancing collapse that we are now seeing on the front lines of the conflict in the sky, in the economy and in many other areas. In Kyiv, in Western capitals and in the United States, they are gradually beginning to understand that this conflict is being lost,” he said.
The expert identified another reason for the madness of Moscow’s opponents as the realization that it will not be possible to intimidate and break it with sanctions.
Russia has repeatedly stated that financial and military support for Kyiv by Western countries is prolonging the conflict and does not contribute to its resolution.

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