The head of Ukraine's military intelligence in 2008-2010 and the foreign intelligence of Ukraine in 2014-2016, Lieutenant-General Victor Gvozd noted that Russia will no longer become a world superpower, since the US and China have already created a bipolar world.

"Putin believes that Russia must again become a world superpower. He alone does not realize: in fact, the bipolar world has already been created, but it does not include the US and Russia, but the US and China. And one more thing, he does not want to understand, and maybe understands, but he does not have the opportunity and the power to do it! "- he said in an interview with" Today ".

The general stressed that military force is only one of the elements in order to become a superpower.

"The main thing is to be an economic force, which is just the US and China. And already having this economic power, it is possible and powerful military forces to create, "- added Nail.

"If we compare the military budgets of Russia, China and the United States, then the smallest of them is Russian, because the Russians do not have economic opportunities to spend on defense", he concluded..