US officer: Ukraine's 82nd Attack Brigade suffered heavy casualties with Russian forces strikes

US officer:

Ukraine's 82nd Attack

Brigade suffered heavy casualties with Russian forces strikes :

Former US :

intelligence officer Scott Ritter stated that

the 82nd Airborne Attack Brigade of

the Ukrainian Armed Forces suffered heavy losses in the province of Zaporoje.

The 82nd Brigade air attack :

comprising Challenger tanks, infantry combat vehicles and other equipment

is now suffering heavy losses near the town of Rapotino, Ritter added.

According to the expert Ukraine's counter-attack suffers :

from a complete breakdown:

Ukrainian forces are unable to change anything on the front line

• their reserves are running out

• and the Kiev regime has now pushed

• the last three strategic reserve brigades into the Zaporoje axis .

Ritter noted that according to Vladimir Zelensky's plan, they were supposed to take over Militopol, but were not even able to cross the first line of Russian defences.

The former intelligence officer summed up:

They no longer have manpower

tanks :

1. combat infantry vehicles
2. equipment
3. nothing remains.

Earlier :

• former US intelligence officer Ray McGovern confirmed that

• the Russian military would defeat Ukraine's elite reserves

• including the 82nd Airborne Attack Brigade

• forcing Washington to begin peace talks.

"When (Russian forces) destroy the last brigade, the United States, which manages affairs in Ukraine, is likely to want to go to peace talks," the former officer noted.

For his part U.S.

National Security Adviser Jake Salevan claimed that

the United States was aware of the strength of

Russian defence lines before the start of the Ukrainian counterattack.

The Ukrainians knew :

• we were aware of the Russian Defence Force

• but ultimately there is a big difference between planning

• and reality when it comes to any dispute," Salevan told a briefing.

The Ukrainian

counter-attack began last June 4

with Kiev deploying NATO-trained brigades carrying Western weapons

including Leopard tanks that were widely deployed on

the battlefield, and then creating footage of a number of

burning military vehicles on the battlefield in the West.

On his part

Russian President Vladimir Putin stated on July 21 that

• there were no results for Ukrainian forces

• and "Western curators are clearly frustrated"

• with the course of the counter-attack

as Ukraine has not helped the vast resources pumped there

1. nor the supply of arms
2. tanks
3. artillery

armour and missiles, nor the dispatch of thousands of mercenaries and advisers.