But warfare is not straightforward, things never go to plan and you have to be prepared for the worst case. "And I suspect probably it won't achieve the success it needs to in the first offensive and we're probably going to need to see a succession of major attacks over the months and indeed years to come."Īsked about Mr Zelenskyy's remarks that Ukraine could beat Russia by the end of the year, Sir Richard said: "Well I would love that to be the case. "And the result, of course, of that is that the Ukrainian counteroffensive, when it comes, will take a great deal of effort to achieve success.
A former NATO commander has questioned the speed at which Western countries have armed Ukraine - and said the war could drag on for years as a result.įormer deputy Supreme Allied Commander of NATO, Sir Richard Shirreff, told Sky News: "If you can imagine if Britain and other Western European countries, and America, had given Ukraine the tools to do the job a year ago, we probably wouldn't be here now.
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