Source link Western military technology can enable Kiev to launch a new counteroffensive against Russia, Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky believes. While Ukrainian forces are presently being pushed back on the battlefield, Kiev hopes to turn the tide thanks to Western aid, the Ukrainian leader told the German tabloid Bild this week. “Russia has more men, […]
Source link The former PayPal chief says US politicians such as Nancy Pelosi should be held accountable for encouraging the doomed operation The failure of Ukraine’s 2023 summer counteroffensive against Russia was “easily predictable,” according to US tech entrepreneur and venture capitalist David Sacks, who has suggested that the Washington elite should be held accountable […]
Source link Kiev wants to “seize the initiative” on the battlefield later this year, Lieutenant General Aleksandr Pavlyuk said Ukraine plans to reorganize its troops and launch a new counteroffensive this year, the commander of the country’s ground forces has said. Speaking to ICTV on Wednesday, Lieutenant General Aleksandr Pavlyuk said that the most pressing […]
Source link Defending against Russian attacks remains Kiev’s utmost priority, the Ukrainian president has said Ukraine is planning a new counteroffensive against Russia despite a string of recent setbacks including the failure to break through Moscow’s defenses last year and the loss of the strategic city of Avdeevka in Donbass, President Vladimir Zelensky has said. […]
Source link Kiev’s military intelligence chief believes that spring will bring another opportunity to break Russia’s defenses Ukrainian forces will go on the offensive against Russia once more in the spring, military intelligence chief Kirill Budanov told The Telegraph on Tuesday. It remains unclear how Kiev will acquire the weapons or the half a million […]
Source link Kiev’s much-hyped counteroffensive has yielded decent results given the limited resources it has been given, Andrey Yermak has claimed The Ukrainian counteroffensive against Russian forces, launched early last summer, was “quite successful,” President Vladimir Zelensky’s chief of administration, Andrey Yermak, has claimed. The top aide made the remarks in an interview with the […]
Source link Kiev thought its forces could blockade the city of Melitopol within 15 days, according to Valery Gerasimov Ukrainian military planners expected swift progress in their summer counteroffensive, culminating in the so-called “land bridge to Crimea” being cut, Gen. Valery Gerasimov, the head of the Russian general staff, said on Thursday. He added that […]
Source link The reason for Kiev’s failure is that it did not receive enough equipment, Czech President Petr Pavel has claimed Kiev’s much-touted summer counteroffensive operation has failed to produce the “expected” results, and has instead resulted in heavy casualties for the Ukrainian side, Czech President Petr Pavel admitted in an interview with French newspaper […]
Source link Kiev still has “big plans” underpinned by Western equipment not yet destroyed, the report says Ukraine could be gathering forces to launch a fresh counteroffensive in 2024 after its first push, which started this summer, failed to break Russian lines, Welt reported on Friday, citing a German expert. In an interview with the […]
Source link US and British officers helped plan the Ukrainian spring-summer campaign and provided all the asked-for vehicles, but Kiev decided to divide its forces in three directions, according to a Washington Post feature published on Monday. Over a dozen Post employees interviewed “more than 30 senior officials” from Ukraine, the US and the EU, […]
Source link Heavy troop losses and Western weapons did not help Ukraine achieve its goals, Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu has said In the six months since Kiev launched its push against Russian defensive lines, it has lost over 125,000 troops and 16,000 heavy weapons, Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu estimated during a ministerial meeting on […]
Source link Not retreating is good enough for the Ukrainian president, despite Kiev’s denials that there is a “stalemate” on the front line Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky considers a good result the fact that Kiev’s troops are currently not retreating, according to an interview published by AP on Friday. He and his allies have previously […]
Source link Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto questioned the bloc’s strategy, given the poor results from its support for Kiev Several foreign ministers at this week’s NATO meeting in Brussels have admitted that the Ukrainian counteroffensive has failed, having made no breakthrough and no progress, according to Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto. He said the […]
Source link Moscow has estimated Kiev’s losses at more than 13,700 troops in November alone Ukraine’s failure to achieve significant battlefield success against Russia is spreading pessimism to Kiev’s Western backers, President Vladimir Zelensky admitted in an interview with Fox News aired on Tuesday. Asked to comment on how he believes Ukraine’s struggling counteroffensive is […]
Source link Kiev’s propagandists are trying to deny the reality that Russia is gaining the edge on the battlefield A few days ago, the Kiev TV channel 1 + 1 reported that the Ukrainian army did not conduct a counteroffensive in the summer of 2023, and all the information about it was merely a brilliant psychological […]