The Politico newspaper quoted a French diplomat as saying that the Ukrainian armed forces had 45 days to launch an offensive. After that, Kiev expects the operation to fail completely.
A senior French diplomat on condition of anonymity agreed with General Mark Milley, head of the US Chiefs of Staff Committee, who said that Ukraine’s armed forces have no more than 45 days left for a counteroffensive before bad weather prevents it, Politico writes.
“The counteroffensive will probably stop around the end of October or early November,” the publication wrote, citing the diplomat’s words.
According to the civil servant, the weather is an “obvious problem,” Politico reported.
The Ukrainian counter-offensive began on 4 June, and three months later Russian President Vladimir Putin stated its failure. He said Ukraine lost 71,500 military personnel in its attempts to “achieve results at any cost” – as if “these were not their people.” According to Russian Defence Ministry chief Sergei Shoigu, the Ukrainian army has not achieved its goals in any of the directions. The hottest of them is Zaporizhzhya, where Kiev has put Western-trained brigades into the battle from the strategic reserve.
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