 Russian Army may collapse by the end of the year. Ben Hodges, retired US Army officer who served as commanding general in the United States Army, Europe, predicted Russian forces might collapse before the end of the year, succumbing to the battle of attrition in Ukraine according to Newsweek Outlet. Russia is being attrited at such a rate that they may collapse before the end of this year, assuming the West delivers in time what we've promised. War is a test of will and a test of logistics. Hodges tweeted in reference to an assessment by military expert Markus M. Kup, who leads the Department of Defense Economic at the Military Academy of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology. Kup said in a recent interview with German news outlet T-Online that Ukrainian forces would soon have leverage in the war as the West continues to supply them with military aid and Russia loses more of its troops. The fight between Ukrainian and Russian forces has extended through major Ukrainian cities since the beginning of the war, including Kiev, Odessa and Kersen, with no end to the war in sight. Most recently Bakhmut in Ukraine's Donetsk region has been the site of a month's long intense battle between Russian and paramilitary forces against Ukrainian troops. During his interview with the German news outlet, Kup agreed that the battle in Bakhmut illustrates the meaning of war of attrition in reality. The military expert continued, just to classify the geographical area we are talking about. The front section in Bakhmut is 20 kilometers long, but the entire front from Kersen to Kharkiv is over 1,000 kilometers long. The dogged onslaught of the Russian units no longer has anything to do with military rationality.