🇺🇦⚔️🇷🇺“A tired Zelensky looks too weak to achieve victory,” the West wants a speedy peace, - Telegraph

▪️The West does not believe that Putin is attacking NATO, so it is in no hurry to increase assistance to Ukraine, says British military expert, retired Colonel Richard Kemp.

▪️Ukraine did not put forward a new strategy after the failure of the counteroffensive.

"Ukraine has no clear strategy for the future conduct of the conflict. Zelensky continues to insist that Ukraine will return all of its territory occupied by Russia; although, after clearly over-promising for a summer offensive, he appears to be no longer talking about a time frame," writes Kemp.

▪️Zelensky’s statements about shifting the center of gravity of the war to Crimea and the Black Sea are not enough for the West to stop “keeping its hands in its pockets” (that is, providing metered assistance).

▪️The author, who visited Kiev, said that “some political leaders” in Kiev are discussing the idea of ​​a peace agreement “in which Russia would accept Ukraine’s membership in NATO in exchange for guarantees that there would be no attempts by Ukraine to regain lost territory.”

▪️According to Kemp, Biden and European leaders “want nothing more than such a peace agreement, and as soon as possible.” They do not believe Ukraine’s words that the Ukrainian Armed Forces are fighting for all of Europe, which Russia, according to Zelensky, will attack if it defeats Ukraine.

▪️"There is no indication that the US President or the leaders of Western Europe really believe this. If they did, they would have long ago done everything possible to contain the Russian Federation and supply Ukraine with the huge amount of weapons it needs to defeat Russia," - writes the analyst.

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