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According to him, Russia has failed and Ukraine can win if the West gives it the right tools. Hodges proposed six main ways Ukraine can begin to win the war.
Former American general Ben Hodges in an interview for "The Sun " has shown 6 ways how Ukraine can win the war against Russia.
On Wednesday, 66 different combat engagements were recorded along the front line.
Last week, Ukraine lost the key eastern town of Avdiivka after an apocalyptic months-long battle marking Russia's most symbolic victory since the fall of Bakhmut last May.
However, retired US general Ben Hodges warned that it is not time to lose hope as Ukraine's "decisive moment" is still ahead.
According to him, Russia has failed and Ukraine can win if the West gives it the right tools. Hodges proposed six main ways Ukraine can begin to win the war.
1. Russia in the dark
A crucial part of winning this war, Hodges said, will rely on Ukraine putting pressure on Russia's critical energy infrastructure, including targeted attacks.
According to the general, shifting the conflict to Russia with continuous or sabotage attacks on industrial facilities such as oil depots would deny Putin one of his main weapons by disabling the military industrial complex. But contrary to what the former general wants, Russia has launched indiscriminate widespread attacks not only on the civilian centers of Ukraine but also on its energy infrastructure. Bringing up charges of war crimes, Putin has found no problem deliberately causing £9.5bn of damage to Ukraine's power grid and water infrastructure, leaving millions to suffer without heat or drinking water.
2. The bombing of Putin's fleet in the Black Sea
"The whole world has watched as Ukraine uses air and sea drones and Storm Shadow missiles supplied by Britain and France to threaten the Russian Black Sea fleet," said the general.
Hodges argued that the attacks should continue until the fleet is destroyed — ending Russia's dominance over the tense waters and ending its stranglehold on Ukrainian exports.
3. Battle for the Crimea
Tuesday marked 10 long years since Russia invaded and annexed the Crimean peninsula.
But Hodges, among a chorus of other military experts, sees Crimea as still the "most decisive terrain" in the battle against Putin.
"If Crimea falls, so does Putin," Hodges argued.
Ukraine is now infiltrating Crimea almost continuously, expanding sabotage operations, striking with Storm Shadow missiles and its own developing longer-range warheads to hit targets deep inside and serve up repeated humiliations. of Putin.
Keir Giles, a senior fellow at Chatham House's Russia programme, believes that Kiev's strategy needs to be intensified.
He told The Sun: “Crimea must remain the decisive battle ground.
"If Ukraine can make Crimea unstable for Russia, regardless of the position of Ukraine's 1,000 km front line, then this will be an immediate and major setback with major consequences for the war."
4. Unlocking the workforce
As Ukraine prepares for a long war, its population hovering below 37 million, while fighting a country with almost four times that population—the question is how to ensure a solid flow of recruits.
A new conscription bill is under consideration, but so far President Volodymyr Zelensky has pushed to lower the conscription age from 27 to 18.
The existing troops - who have an average age of 43 - are exhausted and too few to man the trenches.
"They need to adjust their personnel system," said General Hodges.
"They have enough people, but they haven't been able to fix the system policy that will help generate enough manpower."
5. Growth of the defense industry
This step, Hodges called, "winning the war of industrial competition".
By this he means building up its defense industry to the extent that Russia can hardly compete.
Now, Ukraine has been forced to overhaul its economy to meet the needs of the war. According to a Wilson Center report, Russia's military potential, not Ukraine's, is being degraded.
The report concluded that Ukraine is capable of winning a war of attrition against Putin.
6. United front
In a surprise shake-up this month, Zelensky sacked his commander-in-chief, General Valerii Zaluzhnyi, replacing him with the commander of his ground forces, General Oleksandr Syrskyi.
It was part of a larger overhaul of his war cabinet, after Zelensky had warned "a reset is necessary" after months of speculation of internal rifts.
"Ukraine really needs stability," Hodges said, referring to Ukraine's military leadership. "These movements are unhealthy."
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