Ret. Lt. Gen. Mark Hertling: ‘Ukraine Is Now the Third Largest Army in Europe Behind Russia and Turkey’

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HERTLING: “I am seeing momentum, Alex, and it’s a great question because there’s a lot of Western analysts who suggest that Ukraine is not going fast enough. One of the things I’d point out is Ukraine is now the third largest army in Europe behind Russia and Turkey. That — they were at one point about the 11th largest army in Europe. So, we’re talking about the capability of the Ukrainian armed forces to become even stronger on a daily basis. And what I see is they are conducting this operation in a very — very correct manner. They’re probing, they’re continuing to look for ways to assault, they’re keeping their reserves, there are nine brigades that have been trained in the rest — in the West, excuse me — in reserve so they can conduct the operation once they find the weak spots in the Russian lines. It’s going to be a very tough fight in the next six to eight weeks, but I think Ukraine is going to succeed in what they’re doing.”