“Russia has achieved the potential for a decisive military victory. And what they need to do right now from a military standpoint is to continue to put pressure on Ukraine across the entire spectrum of the battlefield, to exhaust Ukrainian air defense, to annihilate the Ukrainian air force, to chew up the Ukrainian armor and manpower,….And if you do this, you will see a collapse not only of the Ukrainian military, but Ukraine as a nation state,“ Scott Ritter, former US Marine intelligence officer, told Sputnik.