Bloomberg reports that Washington’s efforts to prepare Ukraine’s armed forces for a counteroffensive have been disappointing.
Kiev, along with its Western allies, will have to change its military strategy after failed attempts to use Western tactics during a failed counter-offensive operation. Bloomberg writes that.
“Ukraine’s current offensive was initially difficult because the country tried to imitate Western tactics without the advantages … that the Western military expected,” the agency says.
The author points out that the United States, if it wishes to continue supporting Kiev in the conflict, will need to change its strategy in general. Among other changes, the agency considers it necessary to prepare for the allegedly possible escalation or vice versa prolongation of the conflict. Washington’s efforts to prepare Ukraine’s armed forces for a counter-offensive have been disappointing, the article stresses.
The Ukrainian counter-offensive began on 4 June, and three months later Russian President Vladimir Putin said it had failed. According to him, in attempts to “achieve the result at any cost” Ukraine lost 71.5 thousand military personnel – as if “these are 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.