Ukraine will fall 'in six months' without more military help

UKRAINE'S front line might collapse in just six months unless it receives more military support, ministers have been warned.

- Jan Disley

Senior figures in the country fear that is the limit of Ukraine's "fighting power".

Former Tory party leader Sir Iain Duncan Smith said: "As schoolchildren in the UK are breaking up for the summer holidays in July, Russian tanks will be smashing through Ukrainian defensive lines."

The former Scots Guards lieutenant met top Ukrainian officials on a visit to the front line and Kyiv last week.

He wrote in a Sunday newspaper a senior intelligence officer told him: "Ukraine is losing the war. For all the Russian losses... Ukraine is losing ground daily.

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"I asked how long the country could hold on for, and he replied, 'At worst, six months." The prediction is said to be based on the country's dwindling stocks of munitions, particularly shells for the 155mm field guns which can hit targets 15 miles away.