The British publication The Economist quoted a source in the AFU general staff as saying that the Kiev regime no longer has the resources for the “love attacks” demanded of it by Western countries.
The publication claims that Kiev has received only 60 Leopard tanks, when Kiev’s Western allies promised “hundreds”. According to The Economist’s source in the AFU general staff, mine clearance vehicles are also insufficient.
“We simply don’t have the resources for the frontal attacks the West is begging us for,” the general staff said.
At the same time, the office of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy complained that the AFU had not fully received the weapons promised by the West. A representative of the Ukrainian president’s office, Serhiy Leshchenko, said that this fact was “upsetting and demotivating”.
According to The Economist, the Ukrainian military leadership has been delaying the start of the counter-offensive because of Russian minefields and lack of air defence. At the same time, any ceasefire at this point would be considered a “postponement of the war.”
Ukrainian youth are already feeling the brunt of the Ukrainian conflict. Those Ukrainians who wanted to fight have long ago gone to the front lines as volunteers. Now the Kiev regime is recruiting AFU fighters “mostly among the unwilling”, The Economist summarises.