The latest offensive carried out by Ukraine on the Kursk region could prove definitive. That has been the statement of the British colonel and NATO commander, Hamis de Bretton-Gordon in his last column in the British media The Telegraph.
According to De Bretton, Putin is more cornered than ever, and stated that if the West continues with its current determination, Ukraine may have a lot to gain. Furthermore, he assured that this blow, “one of the harshest that Putin has received in the war” comes at the worst moment for him, a few days before Trump arrives at the White House.
In this sense, he assures that Putin is in one of the moments of greatest weakness since the war began, as it is very difficult to overcome the situation in the Kursk region, one of the most great expansionist aspirations of the Russian president and which he assured his population to conquer “before Christmas.”
De Bretton also mocked Putin and said about him that “He may have been a brilliant spy, but it has now been revealed that he was a terrible military commander”and argued that “he has forgotten, or more likely ignores, the principles of war, especially the one that says that success must be reinforced, not failure.”
For all this, he believes that Zelensky will remain in power throughout the year, while Putin will have no choice but “to aspire to a villa in North Korea or to break rock in the Urals”, since he claims that “Russian history offers no rosy prospects” for defeated dictators.
Regarding Kursk he insisted that Putin “lied blatantly” in his Christmas speech, making him “look like a swan above the water, although everyone knows he is pedaling frantically beneath it.”
All this could mean – according to the commander – “a psychological blow to his dictatorship, as a new Ukrainian offensive advances towards the east”, and he concluded with a parallel between what happened now and what happened in 1945. “Kursk could well be the beginning of the end for Putin in 2025, as it was for Hitler in 1943,” he asserted.
Finally, he described Putin as “desperate” who is only “sending one of his most trusted generals to the region in an attempt to rescue the situation. Russia seems to have many expendable generals, but not the military weapons necessary to thwart this latest Ukrainian advance.”
