Ukraine-Russia, General Bertolini: “Risk of chronic war as in Afghanistan”

The only way to put an end to the war between Ukraine and Russia is a “negotiation” in which everyone is willing to give up something otherwise the prospects are “a war until the defeat of one of the two” or “a chronic war that no one can win and that would be the worst prospect. ” General Marco Bertolini, former commander of the IOC, said this to Adnkronos on the prospects of the conflict in Ukraine. A chronic war, according to Bertolini, is a hypothesis that “should scare us as Europeans: a situation in Ukraine as in Afghanistan, a resistance that will go on for decades fueled from outside. For Europe it would be terrible”. The Russian retreat confirms, despite what many commentators hastily said, that Russian gravitation has never been on Kiev and there has never been a decisive operation on Kiev. and it seems that even the Ukrainians have never believed in an operation against the capital by the Russians, in fact, anti-tank trenches or large anti-tank barrages have never been built “, he says.” Missiles arrived in Kiev but there were no On the other hand, the Russians have always gravitated to the Donbass area up to Kharkiv and the Crimea: in those areas things are going well for the Russians, Mariupol seems to be about to fall and they have taken Izyum, from which could take the Ukrainian forces behind them – he observes – The Russians, in just over a month, have occupied a territory like Great Britain, I don’t think operations are going so badly for the Russians “.