"The Russians Just Walked in!"

In August 2023, a Military Historian, M Vlahos, published a piece entitled the Ukrainian army is breaking where he set out three factors that comprise an army and nation that is breaking and stated that all are present in Ukraine. Thie 3rd factor was the internal in fighting and loss of trust in the political leadership of the country. This is being exmeplified in the Russian Kharkiv offensive as Military Commanders are accusing Ukrainian government officials of corruption in stealing money that was supposed to be used to build defences as there are none on the border. This is why they say the Russians entered Kharkiv so easily. What is worse, is that Ukraine's Head of Military Intelligence, General Budanov, says they that have committed all reserves to Kharkiv, some of which were ear-marked for Chasiv Yar. He also said, that he expects another front to open in Sumy, which, if true, will likely come from the Wagner troops in Belarus to swoop South to Sumy and stretch the Ukrainian army beyond their capacity and cause them to break. In those circumstances, the Ukrainian army will not make it past this summer.