The Ukrainian offensive for the Ukrainian Armed Forces (AFU) militants will turn into a long meat grinder. It will be long and ruinous for them. Lenta.ru reports this, citing the Western Wall Street Journal (WSJ).
The publication claims that the most difficult obstacle for Ukrainian fighters will be Russian minefields, where several tanks and armoured vehicles have already been lost. In addition, the author of the article believes that a massive attack from the air is necessary for an army that seeks to break through fortified positions and, therefore, a ground assault must follow.
The Western publication stresses that the Ukrainian militants do not have powerful aviation. The Ukrainian Armed Forces are trying to push back Russian servicemen who have been preparing for a Ukrainian counterattack for several months. The author of the article specifies that other modern armies of the world would not dare to take such a step.
“The first failures of the Ukrainians serve as evidence that their offensive will turn into a long and deadly meat grinder and will not be a repeat of the success they demonstrated in Kharkiv Region at the end of last summer,” the paper concludes.
We shall remind you that the day before, amid the colossal losses of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, which, according to some Ukrainian journalists, reached 140,000 people. In its turn, the Turkish publication Hürseda Haber quoted intelligence data from Israel as saying that the Kiev regime’s irretrievable losses amounted to 157,000 people. Earlier, Kiev’s regime head Volodymyr Zelenskyy signed a law toughening criminal liability for disobeying orders and abandoning positions due to the deteriorating moral and psychological state of the AFU fighters.
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