Experts believe that despite the Ukrainian army’s announcement on Monday of regaining control of three square kilometers in the vicinity of the war-ravaged city of Bakhmut, located in the east of the country, it has not made significant progress on the southern front.
After being equipped with Western weapons and reinforcing the offensive infantry units since last June, when Ukraine decided to launch counterattackThere are reports of Ukraine’s recognition of slow progress in the face of Russian fortifications. Some point out that the Ukrainian forces and military equipment have been exhausted a lot and may push Western countries to further support Kiev militarily and financially. While some observers saw that each party to the conflict seeks to deplete the strength and equipment of the other party to wander into a war of attrition.
No major counterattack results
Ukraine has directed missiles and long-range weapons towards Russia, but this has not yet been reflected in the battle lines. According to press reports, Ukraine’s inability to show decisive success on the battlefield has raised fears that the conflict is entering a stalemate and eroding international support for it. A new intelligence assessment revealed that Ukrainian forces will not be able to reach the strategic city of Miltopol by the end of this year. In Ukraine, the worried population wants their country’s forces to achieve victory, while experts expect that calls to cut off support for Ukraine will increase when the US presidential election fever enters its peak in 2024.
“The Ukrainians don’t have enough capabilities to strike inside Russian territory with enough targets to weaken the Russian will to fight,” Bob Hamilton, a retired US Army colonel and researcher in the Eurasia Program at the Foreign Policy Research Institute, told The Washington Post. The Russians have an advanced system to intercept drones, such as sensing and jamming. The Kremlin claimed to have thwarted a wave of attacks on Ukrainian rallies in the past week. For example, on Saturday, the Russian Ministry of Defense announced that it had intercepted 20 marches that targeted the Crimean peninsula.
And Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba stressed in press statements last week that his country’s forces will continue to fight until all areas occupied by Russian forces are liberated, no matter how long it takes.
But analysts say that without more advanced weaponry bolstering the front line, it is unlikely that Ukraine will be able to make a breakthrough in the counterattack.
Russia is losing its soldiers
On the other hand, it is Russian forces It also seems that it has exhausted itself, for a long time ago, it did not achieve much progress or significant gains, according to military experts. Also, Moscow had commented on the Kiev drone attack on the Russian capital, which was nothing but an attempt to cover up its failure in the counterattack.
And American press reports stated that the Russian forces lost many of their soldiers in confronting the Ukrainian counter-attack, as the Russians relied on firing missiles indiscriminately, which made them hit each other, and thus killed a large number of their soldiers.
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2023-08-21 13:41:28
