https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2024/11/23/7486017/
Valerii Zaluzhnyi, Ukraine's Ambassador to the UK and former Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, believes that European countries are not ready for a prolonged war with Russia.
Source: Valerii Zaluzhnyi in an interview with Ukrainska Pravda
Quote from Zaluzhnyi: "If we are talking about short-term military operations, European countries are most likely ready. But the essence of the question was whether they were ready for a war of attrition. Let's just do the maths. Look, in October, Ukraine was attacked 1643 times with Shaheds and about 200 missiles against civilian energy facilities. The trend will be to increase this number. This month alone [November 2024 – ed.], if we count the number of Shaheds and missiles that have hit civilian objects, it reaches 3,000. And the month is not even over yet.
So, the number of aerial targets is growing, and the number of countermeasures assets is limited and too expensive. Even by this number, I believe neither the UK nor European countries will be ready [for possible military action against Russia – ed.]. Despite the fact that they have a sufficient number of F-16s, which have excellent air defence capabilities, the air defence network can be completely exhausted in 2-3 months.
It is difficult to say whether they are engaged in alternative measures to learn how to deal with air targets. Most likely they're not."
