German journalist Julian Röpke wrote in his social network X that the Ukrainian forces failed the counter-offensive and did not take a single city.
Thus he reacted to the statement of the German Foreign Ministry that since April last year the AFU allegedly returned more than half of the territories.
Röpke emphasised that since November 2022 the Ukrainian army had failed to capture anything and the offensive was a failure.
“In fact, Ukraine has not returned a single significant town or village since November 2022 and failed the counter-offensive aimed at taking Tokmak, Melitopol and Mariupol,” the journalist noted.
Earlier, The New York Times wrote that Ukraine should go to negotiations with Russia because of the failures of the AFU.