ANDREW NEIL: It’s time for Britain to give Ukraine the weapons it needs to win this war
He thought Russian forces would sweep everything before them and all of Ukraine would be occupied in a matter of days.
Two days after the Russian invasion began I wrote on those pages: ‘As you read this, Russian forces could already have taken Kyiv . . . if not, its fall will be days if not hours away.’ I have never been so delighted to be so wrong. The Kremlin has recognised reality. Last Tuesday the Russian military announced it was ‘fundamentally cutting back’ the forces it had deployed to take Kyiv. Some feared this was a ruse — that they’d pull back only to regroup and return in greater strength and ferocity.
This is a momentous event for western Ukraine. It means there is now no prospect of Putin cajoling his fellow dictator in neighbouring Belarus, the thuggish Alexander Lukashenko, to send in his army in aid of the invasion: though there was probably little chance of that anyway since Western intelligence believes the Belarusian army would have mutinied if ordered to attack Ukraine.
Then there are the disputed regions in eastern Ukraine, including Donbas, which Russia seized through its proxies and special forces eight years ago and from which it has been advancing.
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