Military expert Oleg Zhdanov explained that the West is delaying the supply of weapons to Ukraine not because of fear of Russia.

The expert expressed an opinion about the motives of world powers in choosing such a cautious tactic.

Zhdanov spoke about this on January 3.

"Putin (the head of the Kremlin - ed.) is being given the opportunity to extract all the military potential from Russia. When the Russian Federation cannot form reserves, then a military collapse will come, which will cause a political collapse. Putin will most likely be removed from power under such conditions. The new government, realizing that the country's military potential is zero, it will agree to all the West's conditions," Zhdanov noted.

He also named the West's main condition after the destruction of the Russian military potential.

According to him, the international community will demand the transfer of Russia's nuclear potential under its control.

"And then it will be possible to talk with the Russian Federation as with a third world country. That's why they are dragging," he added.

Zhdanov confirmed that the West really gives the Russian Federation a "handicap".

No matter how sad it sounds, it is at the cost of the lives of Ukrainian fighters and civilians that the world carries out its international policy.

"On the basis of our war, they are building new relations in the world. A new world order is being created. Therefore, the West is in no hurry, because they are not fighting in this war," Zhdanov said.

At the same time, he assured that the Western partners will give weapons to Ukraine.

"Understanding that Putin will field a group of 200,000 in March-April, he will have to be crushed by something. Then there will be a pause and we will wait for the next one: will he gather a third one or not?... If not, then that's it: the active phase of the war is over. Hence the forecast, that the war may end not in the summer, but in the fall of this year," he said.

Earlier, Brian Mefford, an expert at the Atlantic Council think tank in Washington, named the tendencies of Ukraine's victory in the war.

We will remind that the Office of the President of Ukraine also named the possible terms of the end of the war.

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