Ukrainian Counter-Attack: Military and Strategic Experts Weigh In

The military and strategic expert, Major General Fayez Al-Duwairi, said that the Ukrainian counter-attack is a surprise at the strategic level in terms of its size and the nature of its objectives, indicating that it began several months ago, considering that the battle of Bakhmut is among one of the tools employed to achieve the success of this attack.

Al-Duwairi’s statements came to the “Beyond the News” program (27/5/2023), which discussed the significance of the escalating attacks on Russian territory and the nature and objectives of the armed groups that are fighting these battles.

Al-Duwairi explained that the attack, according to the military’s expectations, must have its beginnings, which will be by striking warehouses and supply points, in order to be able to cause confusion, confusion and paralysis among the Russian forces to make the counterattack a success.

On the other hand, the military and strategic expert, Vasily Fatigarov, denied the existence of any Ukrainian strikes against Russia, considering that talking about the exhaustion of the Russian forces in Bakhmut is incorrect, citing the difference in losses between Russia and Ukraine.

Fatigarov added that the strikes directed at Russia are taking place with the approval of Western countries that continue to escalate and support Ukraine through advanced weapons, to increase escalation and heat it up to greater levels.

In turn, Oleksiy Melnik, former assistant defense minister of Ukraine, said that America is trying to prevent Ukraine from striking Russia, stressing that the attacks carried out by the Ukrainian forces against Russia use its local weapons.

He added that China, America and India are working to send messages to Moscow not to use nuclear weapons, because of the dangers they contain that may change humanity and work to bring all countries into a global war.

It is noteworthy that the Russian governor of Belgorod said that two large institutions in the province were bombed as part of attacks inside the Russian depth, amid the conflicting accounts of Moscow and Kiev regarding groups of fighters that were said to have penetrated into Russian territory to launch these attacks on different regions, and these developments coincide with the escalation of Ukrainian attacks on sites Russian in Donetsk, Mariupol and Crimea.