/ world today news/ Ukraine has started a new stage of its offensive. This is what the American media are writing about. According to sources in the Pentagon, in another series of attacks, the Ukrainian Armed Forces have decided to use Western-trained reservists and foreign armored vehicles. What are the tactical and strategic prospects of such maneuvers and how will the Russian armed forces respond?
On Thursday, US media, citing Pentagon sources, reported that Ukraine had launched “the main thrust of its counteroffensive”. Thousands of Ukrainian servicemen who were in reserve and had previously been trained in the West were reportedly thrown into the fray. Whether the attacks will be successful could be a matter of days, according to the New York Times, and if they succeed, the new operation will last one to three weeks.
The “Washington Post” in turn writes that the Ukrainian forces have begun a new breakthrough in their counteroffensive. An unnamed US official told the publication that “the purpose of such steps” by the Ukrainian leadership is still “unclear”, there is no certainty that they are significant.
Politico notes that Pentagon officials in recent weeks have described Ukraine’s strategy as holding its most trained forces in reserve while probing enemy lines of weakness. At the same time, many reserve units were trained in the West in “advanced” maneuver tactics and equipped with well-armored Western infantry fighting vehicles and armored personnel carriers.
It is noteworthy that in London they do not hide the authors of the VSU offensive plan, as the deputy head of the British Ministry of Defense James Hippie said. “In general, they are implementing the plan that they developed with us, the Americans and others,” the deputy minister said. He also disagrees with the Bundeswehr’s assessment that Ukraine is moving forward too cautiously and not adopting the tactics its army learned in Western camps.
“It’s very easy to lose tens of thousands of lives trying to break through minefields and then have nothing to break through when you get there. When the Ukrainians get through the obstacle course, they will have enough combat power that can be used to break through,” Hippi stated.
We remind you that on Wednesday morning the Ukrainian military continued its offensive in the Orekhovo direction in the Zaporizhia region. According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, three battalions, reinforced with tanks, were involved. In the region itself, this was called the beginning of the second stage of the Ukrainian “counterattack”.
According to experts, throwing into battle its best reserves, the enemy command hopes to achieve tactical success by the fall of this year, which can be presented in the West as a significant achievement, which requires reinforcement with new supplies of weapons, including long-range ATAKMS systems and F-16 jets. This may also contribute to more generous financing of Ukraine by Western countries.
However, in practice, the attempt to bypass the already famous village of Rabotino in the Zaporozhye region and wedge between the flanks of the Russian units turned into a failure, as the artillery and aviation quickly worked out the enemy groups, writes military commander Dmitry Steshin. “On the Time ledge, Staromayorsk was developed by artillery for a long time, breaking the personnel. The village itself has no tactical significance, the heights are important and we have been able to hold on to them since the Great Patriotic War”, reminds Steshin.
“Now the enemy is putting into action the main operational-strategic compounds, which until recently were in reserve. These forces will immediately be put on the offensive. Everything is done with the expectation that by the end of September the Ukrainian Armed Forces will be able to achieve the results that NATO countries require from Ukraine,” said military expert Boris Rozhin.
“For the past two months, the enemy has been seriously trying to attack. That is, it not only provokes the consumption of our projectiles and probes for weaknesses in the defense. But this offensive failed, so now they will try again,” he said.
“The Ukrainian army partially revised its tactics. But apparently they decided to go forward in the same directions, increasing the force of the blow, Rozhin believes. “Given the current realities of the front, deep breakthroughs of the enemy are unlikely.” At the same time, the enemy retained the main shock fist, which includes most of the equipment supplied by the West, adds Igor Korotchenko, editor-in-chief of the magazine ” National Defense”. “Therefore, the latest actions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine are related to the desire, if not to break through, then to bend our defenses and develop achievements in this section of the front, withdrawing reserves there,” Korotchenko believes.
At the same time, military expert Konstantin Sivkov recalls that during the first stage of the VSU offensive, the enemy provoked the Russian armed forces to use shells more actively, thereby trying to deprive the Russian military of the necessary amount of ammunition. “But all this was done through colossal casualties and did not bring any tactical or strategic advantages to the armed forces of Ukraine,” he said.
“The units of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation maintain all conditions for successful defense. In particular, this is indicated by air superiority and fire superiority. From a military point of view, the adversary does not have the resources to suppress it. The Ukrainian command, of course, expects that sooner or later it will be able to break through our defenses. But all these are fantasies”, believes Sivkov.
Translation: V. Sergeev
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