"I'm afraid we're going to have to admit that Ukraine no longer has a chance of making substantial and important territorial gains," said Frederik Mertens, a strategic analyst at the Hague Center for Security Studies.
As Major of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Viktor Tregubov told the magazine, autumn rains and winter cold "change everything."
Former US Armed Forces intelligence officer Tony Shaffer previously noted that the Ukrainian army was unable to seize any territory during its counteroffensive.
German journalist Julian Röpke also admitted that Western military equipment supplied to the Armed Forces of Ukraine turned out to be useless in the combat zone.