The war in Ukraine was compared to a boxing match by a former general.
Mark Hertling said fighting in the eastern part of the country has not yet seen a knockout blow.
He said that it would come as Russian President Putin's forces became more deplete.
The war in eastern Europe is nearing the four-month mark, and a former US general compared it to a boxing match.
Mark Hertling, the former top commander of the US Army forces in Europe, wrote that it was a big fight. There has not been a knockout blow yet. As Russian forces become less powerful, it will happen.
The fighting between the two sides in eastern Ukraine's Donbas region is similar to a "punch-counterpunch" fight in which both sides make progress hard to come by.
There is a volunteer battalion that has been fighting in Ukraine. About half of the members come from other countries. Most of the volunteers in the battalion have some military experience.
The fight in the Donbas has been going on for over two months so an expectation would be advancement on either side. That didn't happen.
After admitting it is outmatched by Russian weaponry on the battlefield, Ukraine has pleaded with Western countries to send more weaponry. As the country gets new equipment, Hertling expects the resources to increase.
Russian President Vladimir Putin's forces pivoted their invasion to focus on eastern Ukraine after failing to capture the capital city of the country.
NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg predicted that the war in eastern Ukraine would last for years.
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