"Live up for 6-9 months": The Budanov's forecast for the end of the war (video) commented
In an interview with Channel 24, the reason was why this did not happen in the specified time. According to him, the Western weapons, or more precisely the pace of its supplies, influenced. If the partners provided help much faster, then the situation could be different. After the counter -offensive in Kharkiv region in 2022, intensive negotiations of the Ukrainian side to provide weapons and equipment with international partners began.
First of all, there was a deficit in artillery, and without it it was impossible to move further. "Instead of making it quickly in the fall of 2022, everything was slowly unfolding in the fall. We worked out logistics, there were many agreements. Even then we got out of the supply schedule. Because instead of getting weapons in a week, we started getting it through 3-4 months, " - said Mikhail Podolyak. Then the world could not understand and accept all circumstances and start supply immediately.
After that, there was a winter, during which the Russian Federation began to fire critical infrastructure, but even this did not affect the West and did not force them to accelerate assistance. "They decided to wait, to see: would it be influenced by Ukraine? Look, not influenced, resisted. They were shocked, again, we were not, and they were shocked by Russia's offensive actions," the message reads.
During the offensive of the Armed Forces in the Donetsk region, the world was not activated again, although thanks to the rapid supply of the Armed Forces, they could not only be effectively defended, but also in parallel to go into their own counter -offensive. Only after all of the above events did the weapon begin to cross the Ukrainian border. "We are behind 6-9 months. Everything is very stretched in time. Budanov is right here.