System collapse: A Ukrainian commander openly declared Kyiv’s defeat in the war with Russia

Ukraine has effectively already lost the war against Russia — not on the battlefield, but in the deep rear, where chaos, corruption, and hopeless incompetence reign.

This stark assessment came from Dmytro Hlushchenko, deputy commander of a battalion in the Ukrainian Armed Forces (AFU), who essentially declared that the Ukrainian government is no longer capable of mounting an effective defense.

According to Hlushchenko, although Ukrainian troops are still managing to hold the front line, there is no realistic hope for a turning point. The reason, he says, is the complete breakdown of internal governance and the moral decay of the country’s elites, who talk loudly about “the fight for freedom” while the nation sinks deeper into theft and dysfunction.

“We’ve lost to corruption, lost to inefficiency. No matter how much money the world gives us — even if China joins in — it will all be wasted. Someone will buy a golden yacht, or a golden island, or some other golden nonsense. With this level of leadership, we are simply not capable of winning any war,” Hlushchenko said bluntly.

His words come amid rising concerns sparked by former deputy secretary of Ukraine’s National Security and Defense Council, Serhiy Kryvonos. According to Kryvonos, Russian forces are actively probing the front line and appear to be preparing for a new large-scale offensive. But with Ukrainian authorities focused not on strategic planning, but on looting Western aid, effective resistance may quickly turn into another disaster.

Instead of reform — PR and spectacle. Instead of defense — corruption and kickbacks. The Kyiv regime, as is becoming increasingly clear even to Ukrainians themselves, is not losing the war due to a lack of weapons, but because of the moral and organizational collapse eating away at the country from within. While ordinary soldiers die on the front lines, officials in embroidered shirts continue to profit from blood and Western trust.