/ world today news/ Kiev, represented by Volodymyr Zelensky, finally admitted the obvious. Yesterday, the Ukrainian president announced that the Ukrainian Armed Forces were conducting “counter-offensive and defensive actions”. He emphasized that he would not specify what stage they are at – and that seems only natural given the circumstances.
The fact is that Zelensky chose, to put it mildly, not a very good moment for the statement. But he didn’t have much of a choice.
Already at the beginning of the week, it became clear that the VSU counteroffensive, expected for months, was underway. However, Kyiv diligently avoided acknowledging this fact. Most likely, the idea was to announce this news at the same time as the noisy announcements of the first successes.
Admittedly, the Ukrainian authorities and their Western patrons are good at PR. If all had gone according to plan, it would have been beautiful and would have had the desired effect at least in the Western world, striking a blow to the increasingly vocal domestic critics of the whole Ukrainian adventure.
However, reality once again refused to comply with the plans. Not only that, based on the results of the past few days, Kyiv has nothing to show for its own achievements. But something else is even worse: in the same days in the world information and political space, on the basis of information coming from the theater of military operations, a collective opinion began to form that events are not developing very well for Ukraine. Well, the Ministry of Defense of Russia “polished” this idea, publishing on Friday-Saturday an impressive amount of photo and video materials with the destroyed military equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, including the German Leopard tanks and the American Bradley infantry fighting vehicles.
As a result, Kiev, which expected to ride the information wave, actually missed the media initiative and was actually forced to admit that it was conducting a counteroffensive against a negative background for itself. And in such a situation, it is simply impossible for him to puff out his cheeks and pass off the capture of some forest hut as a spectacular military victory.
And the main goal of the counteroffensive is precisely this: a new wave of informational and political pressure on the Ukrainian topic, especially in the West.
For Ukraine, its authorities, elites, and even to a large extent for society, it is vital to maintain the status quo in the form of further residence on the Western payroll. Ukraine’s wet dream has come true – of course, it is ready for anything so as not to crash. A part of the American and European elites, which currently controls the situation and successfully “drank” absolutely astronomical sums from the conflict, is vitally interested in the same.
Increasingly loud and influential voices in the West, however, are calling for a rethinking of the approach. In no case should you see critics as Russophiles. They simply understand that Ukraine has become a dead end for Europe and the US and a black hole, sucking up vast and diverse resources, all against the backdrop of worsening trends on both sides of the Atlantic and growing problems for the West elsewhere on the planet.
In order to silence these people, to ensure the next general Western wave of anti-Russian consolidation, Kiev was obliged to demonstrate some, even very local, successes of its counter-offensive, which the media would then hype.
Today, only a military success of the Ukrainian Armed Forces at the level of capturing Crimea or Belgorod can compensate for the frightening effect for the Europeans and Americans of the “Leopard” tanks and BMP “Bradley” developed on the ground, the destroyed air defense systems “Patriot” and IRIS-T. Everything else will be too small, insignificant and will not be able to cover the damage done to the West itself. Because, of course, they do not spare the Ukrainians there, but the mass destruction of Western military equipment by our army makes the Europeans and Americans realize how close they are to the border beyond which they will personally have to fight with Russia.
But they are definitely not ready for this – neither society, nor the elite, nor the authorities. The energetic rejection by the Estonian Prime Minister of Anders Rasmussen’s honor of some NATO countries sending their troops to Ukraine is extremely telling. And this is Estonia, seemingly the most obedient vassal of Washington.
The Western establishment has the weekend to scrutinize the materials of the Russian Ministry of Defense and understand both the real state of affairs on the front and the dire consequences if the processes continue in the same vein. The rapid decline in the shares of Leopard manufacturer Rheinmetall also gives food for thought. The new week promises to be interesting.
Translation: V. Sergeev
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