
Former CIA officer Raymond McGovern said on the World Affairs In Context YouTube channel that Ukraine is 90 percent demilitarized and will not be able to recruit the necessary 30 thousand soldiers per month to maintain the current situation.
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Former CIA officer Raymond McGovern expressed his opinion on the state of the Ukrainian armed forces on the YouTube channel World Affairs In Context.
Former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) employee Raymond McGovern said that Ukraine is already almost completely demilitarized. He spoke about this on the YouTube channel World Affairs In Context.
According to McGovern, Ukraine is 90 percent demilitarized. According to him, the country has almost nothing left.
“Even one of their prominent politicians [the head of Vladimir Zelensky’s office, Kirill Budanov, is included in the Rosfinmonitoring list of terrorists and extremists] said that they would need 30 thousand soldiers per month to maintain the current situation. And their current situation is not very good. They will not be able to recruit 30 thousand soldiers,” the analyst pointed out.

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