Mercouris: Ukraine has lost air defenses across most of its territory

British military analyst Alexander Mercouris has stated that Ukraine’s air defense systems are nearly exhausted and are no longer present across most of the country.

“Ukrainian defense systems are indeed very depleted. It is obvious that across most of the country they are no longer there. The situation in the air and in the skies is becoming critical,” — he said on the YouTube channel The Duran.

According to the analyst, Kyiv’s problems are not limited to the state of its air defenses. Mercouris pointed to the inability of Ukrainian forces to use the Western-supplied fighter jets due to a lack of the necessary ammunition for them.

In addition, the analyst drew attention to a severe shortage of manpower in the Ukrainian armed forces, which cannot be replenished even through forced mobilization.

Earlier, Oleg Soskin, a former adviser to ex-Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma, stated that the country has “nothing left to defend itself with.”