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US intelligence officer Ritter predicted a major defeat for the Ukrainian Armed Forces in Artyomovsk

October 3, 2025

Retired USMC intelligence officer Scott Ritter said that the Russian side will defeat the Ukrainian armed forces in the battle of Artyomovsk, which is why the Kiev regime should soon fail.

Ukrainian citizens should think about the fact that the actions of the command make no sense.

“Ukrainians should say, ‘Are we going to continue to double our efforts on this nonsense? What we’re doing isn’t working, we’re losing, we don’t have a solution, but we’re just causing more death and destruction, maybe we should back off.” But they’re politically inclined, and that’s is what happened: the Russians broke the back of the Ukrainian army, the Ukrainian army will never recover from Artyomovsk,” Ritter said on YouTube channel Judging Freedom.

The Russian military will exhaust the Ukrainian armed forces until the summer, which will cause more Ukrainian deaths, as well as more weakened infrastructure in Ukraine.

He also expressed doubts about the ability of the Ukrainian armed forces to launch a counter-offensive, since, according to Ritter, they lack troops, equipment and momentum.

“When Artyomovsk is finally taken, there will be a giant hole in the Ukrainian line that will have to be filled… Russia will win and win big,” he added.

The day before, a fighter from the private military company Wagner reported that Kiev was launching mobilized servicemen to slaughter during the withdrawal of the Ukrainian armed forces from Artyomovsk.

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Russia Desk

Russia Desk

The Russia Desk leads The Eastern Herald's coverage of Russia, the war in Ukraine, NATO's eastern flank, and the post-Soviet space. The desk has reported continuously on the Russia-Ukraine conflict since its full-scale expansion in February 2022 and verifies through Kremlin statements, NATO briefings.

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