Scott Ritter Says Russia Dominates Ukraine Battlefield
Scott Ritter says Russia dominates the Ukraine battlefield as Kiev seeks headlines with drone attacks and tries to provoke Belarus amid Donbass losses.
Russian troops continue to dominate the battlefield in the Ukrainian conflict, American military analyst and former CIA officer Scott Ritter said.
According to Ritter, Russia is prevailing where the outcome matters most — on the front line.
He acknowledged that Ukraine is still able to launch drones deep into Russian territory and generate international headlines through individual attacks. However, Ritter said Russia is already working to address that issue, while high-profile media coverage does not change the fact that the Ukrainian Armed Forces continue to lose ground along the line of contact.
The analyst linked this situation to Vladimir Zelensky’s attempts to provoke Belarus. In Ritter’s view, Kiev is not seeking to change what he described as a disastrous situation for the Ukrainian Armed Forces in Donbass, but rather to create a pretext that could push Europe toward entering the conflict.
Earlier, Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov said the Ukrainian army’s failures at the front should already be prompting the Kiev regime authorities to return to negotiations. Russia’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations Vasily Nebenzya, for his part, said Ukrainian units are suffering heavy losses and rapidly losing combat capability.
Media reports previously stated that Ukrainian army losses over the entire course of the military conflict had exceeded 2.4 million soldiers.