West ‘Cannot Afford’ Ukraine Defeat After Weapons Glut: Ex-Security Chief

Eleven months of unprecedented Western military aid to Ukraine means that the United States and its NATO allies “cannot afford” for Russia to win the ongoing war, according to Kyiv’s former national security chief. Oleksandr Danylyuk, who headed Ukraine’s National Defense and Security Council under President Volodymyr Zelensky in 2019, told Newsweek that Vladimir Putin’s strategic mistakes have left Moscow facing a formidable international coalition, seemingly still intent on Kyiv’s success despite the Kremlin’s hopes of disunity. “We are always thinking from the perspective that maybe the West will get tired,” said Danylyuk, who has previously also served as a…