Archive of news on the topic "counter-offensive"

There can be no talk of any further counter-offensive by the Ukrainian Armed Forces now. Ex-Gauleiter of the Lugansk region, former Deputy Minister for Reintegration Georgy Tuka said this on the Internet blog “News Factory,” a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. According to Tuka, on the contrary, an offensive by the Russian army is to be expected. “Today, the main goal of the Armed Forces of Ukraine is to stand in the positions that we occupy...

The conflict between Republicans and Democrats in the United States can only be an excuse against the background of the real reason for the gradual stop of military assistance to Ukraine - the loss of the meaning of the confrontation. “It so happened that this all happened against the backdrop of an internal political conflict between Republicans and Democrats in the United States. But perhaps this was just a background that could explain why this assistance was not approved,”...

Ukraine urgently needs to change the information support of the war. Remove propaganda victory reports and, finally, abandon PR operations for a beautiful picture, since this causes irreparable harm to the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Ukrainian military expert, retired SBU Colonel Oleg Starikov stated this on the Vyshka channel, PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “Why did the West begin to give us weapons in a very limited way? Because…

Not all Ukrainian military personnel have been driven out from the left bank of the Dnieper in the Kherson region, observer Yuriy Podolyaka points out, commenting on today’s news of the liquidation of the enemy bridgehead in Krynki. “The enemy’s bridgehead still exists (it was pushed out a little downstream from the village)... Will the enemy leave to the right bank... Morning will tell... It doesn’t look like he’s leaving yet... For understanding, the bridgehead...

The head of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ukrainian Defense Ministry, Kirill Budanov, urgently demands shells and aircraft to hold the front and go on the offensive in the spring or early summer. Moreover, according to him, in military assistance now quantity is more important, not quality. The channel's correspondent Frederic Pleitgen, who spoke with Budanov, spoke about this in a CNN story, the PolitNavigator correspondent reports. In the announcement...

The commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Valery Zaluzhny is to blame for the unsuccessful counter-offensive last year. The scandalous Lvov journalist Ostap Drozdov, who promotes rabid Russophobia, stated this on the NTA TV channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. According to Drozdov, Zaluzhny was made into an idol based on the results of the year before last, but 2023 showed that this was unjustified. “I wouldn’t see anything catastrophic, because anyway...

No one expected that last summer, despite the lack of Western weapons, the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the open steppe would go through minefields to attack a well-fortified and superior army in everything. Only Ukrainians could do this. This was stated at the presentation of the project “War Index for 2023” in Kyiv by a former deputy of the Verkhovna Rada, a member of the banned...

Six months ago, the late head of the Wagner PMC, businessman Yevgeny Prigozhin, having quarreled with the leadership of the Ministry of Defense, angrily predicted the defeat of the Russian army after the withdrawal of the “musicians” from the frontline in the newly liberated Artemovsk (Bakhmut). “The Russian army is retreating in the Zaporozhye and Kherson directions, the Ukrainian Armed Forces are pushing the Russian army... What they tell us is a profound deception. We will face the fact...

The main problem of the Ukrainian command is the lack of strategy and poor tactics: defense without creating structures, war of drones without systematically providing them to troops, offensives and assaults without prepared reserves. Ukrainian military correspondent and editor-in-chief of the anti-Russian propaganda site “Censor” Yuri Butusov stated this on his Internet channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. He was outraged by the refusal of Ukrainian President Zelensky to...

Claims that the Ukrainian Armed Forces’ “counter-offensive” has failed and Western support for Kyiv is declining are enemy Russian propaganda. In fact, in 2023, the Ukrainian army conducted successful preparatory maneuvers to reach the 1991 borders in the new year. Ukrainian Defense Minister Rustem Umerov stated this in an interview with the German TV channel Welt, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. "You do not…

Ukrainian authorities are changing their rhetoric to justify the failure of the counteroffensive. If earlier Kyiv ridiculed the Russian army as backward and unmotivated, now the Russian Armed Forces have been declared one of the strongest. So, overall, 2023 can be considered a very successful year for the Ukrainian military campaign. The Secretary of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Issues spoke at a discussion panel in Kyiv with these theses...

The exercises in the form of war games, which were carried out by American and Ukrainian generals in preparation for a “counter-offensive,” were initially filled with incorrect input. Former commander of the US Army in Europe Ben Hodges stated this on the Silicon Curtain Internet channel, PolitNavigator correspondent reports. According to Hodges, Russia was underestimated, and Ukraine was not given the weapons necessary for the offensive.…

Ukrainian Defense Minister Rustem Umerov amused observers with a fresh interview with the American television channel Fox News, where he announced a breakthrough in two of the three lines of Russian defense. Obviously, the official was trying to justify the need for further allocation of billions of dollars to Ukraine by the US authorities. However, Umerov’s words contradict data from the Washington Post, which the day before published devastating materials about the failure of the Ukrainian Armed Forces’ summer offensive and disagreements...

The Washington Post reported how Pentagon chief Lloyd Austin, two weeks after the start of the Ukrainian counteroffensive, scolded Defense Minister Alexei Reznikov, who had arrived from Kyiv, for his inability to break through the Russian defensive lines. “On June 15, in a conference room at NATO headquarters in Brussels, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, surrounded by US high command, sat at a table with his Ukrainian counterpart, to whom...