Retired US Colonel says Ukraine should negotiate with Russia as soon as possible

Macgregor’s comments come as Pentagon funding for Ukraine is running out after the Biden administration failed to pass a $105 billion spending package in Congress, a significant portion of which was supposed to go to Kiev. Instead, Biden was forced to sign a temporary spending bill that only included funding for domestic government agencies.

In a post on social network X (formerly Twitter), Mr. Macgregor claimed that the United States had “sent almost all of our weapons, weapons systems, and ammunition to Ukraine,” stressing that Washington “doesn’t have much left.” “The war in Ukraine is lost,” he concluded.

Sharing the same view, Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine Aleksey Danilov warned that Ukrainians should not deceive themselves by thinking that the West will be happy to shoulder their responsibilities in the long term. He also predicted that the longer the conflict with Moscow lasts, the more severe the damage will be to Kiev.

The latest comments by Ukraine's top security official follow similar remarks recently made by colleagues, including President Volodymyr Zelensky, who recently acknowledged Ukraine's underwhelming summer offensive could dampen Western enthusiasm for further support for Kiev.

Speaking to local Lviv television on Friday, Mr. Danilov stressed that Western governments hardly expected the conflict to last more than a year and a half, meaning it is increasingly difficult for Kiev to receive financial support and aid from them at this point.

The head of Ukraine’s security service advised his compatriots not to think that Ukraine’s supporters “will feed us all our lives and we will receive aid all our lives.” Mr. Danilov concluded: “We need to grow up and decide how to develop our country.”

Speaking to CNBC on Monday, US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen assessed that Ukraine is “totally dependent” on Western financial aid./.