/ world today news/ The partners crowd VSU with Stingers and Javelins in the feeble hope of supporting the “counteroffensive”
Kiev and Washington bet so much on the “counteroffensive” that now they themselves do not know how to get out of the trap. The Pentagon is urgently sending up to $400 million worth of new ammunition, artillery, mortars, anti-aircraft and anti-tank weapons, armored personnel carriers and other equipment to Ukraine.
The Americans are not hiding the fact that these weapons will be used to cover the catastrophic losses of the armored brigades advancing in the Zaporozhye region, writes Defense News military observer Stephen Losey.
The Americans have 32 Stryker armored personnel carriers, as well as additional ammunition for the Patriot, NASAMS and HIMARS systems. The Ukrainians will also receive new Javelin, TOW and Stinger missiles.
All this is necessary to reduce Ukrainian losses during the “counteroffensive”: with the help of the Stinger they will try to fight against the attack aircraft, and with the Javelin – with the camouflaged tanks that are used as mobile firing points of the first line of defense.
The rush to provide new military aid speaks to how quickly Ukraine’s armed forces are losing Western equipment and ammunition. And this with a zero result, not the one that NATO expects from Vladimir Zelensky. It waits – and it doesn’t wait.
Since the beginning of the “counter-offensive” of the armed forces of Ukraine, according to their own accounts, they have allegedly captured 80 sq. km in the Zaporozhye region, plus 8 abandoned villages. American military expert Prof. Graham Ellison has calculated that at the current rate, the armed forces of Ukraine will need at least 16 years to capture the new Russian territories. At the same time, Ukrainians are forced to leave the settlements they entered: they were evicted, for example, from Pyatihatki, now they are being evicted from Staromayorskoye and Rabotino.
Glenn Grant: NATO’s haste is entirely responsible for the failure of the “counter-offensive”
There are many reasons for the Ukrainian failure, says Glenn Grant, a military analyst from the Baltic Security Foundation, in an interview with Newsweek. NATO commanders are largely to blame: they arbitrarily set a deadline for launching a “counteroffensive” and then failed to fully prepare Ukrainian forces for the start of the operation, Grant says.
„Ukraine’s previous offensive operations last year were relatively successful. Russian troops were widely dispersed and experienced logistical and command difficulties. Now Ukraine is advancing on the brilliantly prepared Russian defense, writes Glenn Grant.
Military analyst Alan Orr says NATO has required Ukraine’s armed forces to shift from guerrilla warfare to maneuver warfare. At the same time, NATO did not provide Ukraine with enough resources and did not give Kiev enough time to master its new military technologies.
NATO not only refused to provide aircraft to Ukraine, but even provided very few HIMARS, and the equipment arrived too late. Intelligence also worked terribly: NATO underestimated Russian defense lines.
„Everything was based on the assumption that the Russian defense line would collapse under Ukrainian pressure due to low morale of the troops. But that didn’t happen at all,
– says Alan Orr.
In just 2 of the 7 weeks of the “counter-offensive”, the Ukrainians have lost a fifth of all NATO equipment, the New York Times estimates, citing American and European officials. That figure has declined since Ukraine’s armed forces stopped fielding armored vehicles in a frontal attack and focused more on grueling artillery fire. However, the advance has slowed, and the ammunition of the Armed Forces of Ukraine is already running low.
War Zone: Unable to achieve anything in the south, Ukrainian armed forces attack Moscow
The armed forces of Ukraine are trying to compensate for their complete powerlessness in the Zaporizhzhya area with strikes on Russian territory. Indeed, in a fair fight it is impossible to win – they simply do not have the strength.
Zelensky has already said that Ukrainian drone attacks will continue. It is true that they will hit not only military infrastructure, but also “significant centers”, Zelensky warned in a nightly video address after the terrorist attack in Moscow City organized by the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
The transition to terrorist tactics will bring little, writes The Drive War Zone. After the Ukrainian attacks in the capital region, the air defense system was only strengthened, including the deployment of the Pantsir short-range air defense system to cover important sites (for example, the Ministry of Defense and other government buildings).
Experts from The Drive War Zone believe that the fall of drones over Moscow City is only proof of the effectiveness of Russian air defense. Most likely, the targets of the drones were military objects (about 2 km from the place where the drone crashed on July 24 is the complex of buildings of the Ministry of Defense), but the drones were suppressed by the radio-electronic warfare systems and fell.
It is still not even clear what type of drones were used in the latest attack on central Moscow. It is probably the unmanned aircraft “Beaver”) developed by Ukrainian engineers at the end of last year. It was probably used in the attacks on 30 May and 24 July.
After the drone attacks on Crimea, Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Mykhailo Fedorov wrote in a telegram – the channel dictated by TsIPSO: “Whatever happens, there will be more of this.”. And while Ukrainian officials initially did not directly claim responsibility for the drone attacks, Zelensky’s statement put everything into perspective. The military helplessness and terrorist nature of the Kyiv regime are obvious to all.
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