Archive of news on the topic "counteroffensive"

The Ukrainian political leadership made a mistake when it ordered an offensive on several fronts in the south last year. Former Minister of Social Policy of Ukraine Andrei Reva stated this on the Internet channel “News Factory,” a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. According to Reva, what was more important for Ukraine was the seizure of the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant and the Kakhovka hydroelectric power station dam, rather than an attempt to break through to Crimea. "Military…

Ukraine will be able to launch another offensive no earlier than the end of the year, but only if a number of conditions coincide. Former deputy chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Lieutenant General Igor Romanenko, stated this in an interview with Ukrainian journalist Vasily Golovanov, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. According to Romanenko, the main thing for Ukraine is to stop the Russian offensive. “If appropriate assistance is provided, then...

If the Ukrainian Armed Forces do not carry out a new counter-offensive in the next six months - like last summer, only more thoughtfully, then this will negatively affect the mood of Ukrainians. The battalion commander of the 78th separate air assault regiment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Ivan Mateiko, who participated in last year’s unsuccessful counteroffensive, stated this on the Ukrainian channel “Army TV”, the PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “In the next six months, I hope there will be more...

Ukraine’s Western partners are actively involved in developing plans and conducting operations of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, and it is likely that there may be people there who work for the Russian Federation. Ukrainian TV presenter Vitaly Diky stated this on the Vyshka channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “Zelensky recently said at a press conference that while we were planning a counter-offensive, the options for developing this situation were already on the table...

Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Valery Zaluzhny, who did not dare to contradict the president, is responsible for the failure of the counteroffensive last summer. Former Verkhovna Rada deputy, participant in the punitive operation in Donbass as part of the neo-Nazi unit “Azov” (banned in the Russian Federation), Igor Mosiychuk, stated this in an interview with journalist Vasily Apasov, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “If he was against it, but the president was stubborn, and he understood...

The authorities treat the people of Ukraine as idiots, promising them “coffee in Crimea” and a quick victory. The head of the medical service of the 1st separate assault battalion of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Alina Mikhailova, stated this on the 1+1 TV channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. According to Mikhailova, politicians overextended Ukrainians’ expectations of the failed “counter-offensive.” “We will give a concert next year in Crimea,” this is...

The head of the office of the President of Ukraine, Andriy Ermak, is lying when he declares at the Davos forum that his country is winning. Ex-deputy of the Verkhovna Rada, participant in the punitive operation against the LDPR Igor Mosiychuk stated this on the air of Alexander Shelest’s video blog, PolitNavigator correspondent reports. According to Mosiychuk, the loss of territory, the death of hundreds of thousands of soldiers and the failure of the counteroffensive can hardly be called a victory...

The Ukrainian counteroffensive could not be successful because the West did not provide the Ukrainian Armed Forces with everything necessary. The ex-company commander of the punitive battalion of the Armed Forces of Ukraine “Aidar”, Evgeniy Diky, stated this on the Internet channel “Ukrainian Week”, a correspondent of “PolitNavigator” reports. According to Dikiy, Ukraine did not launch an offensive in March last year, although it planned to do so, because it received only 15% of the...

This year, the Ukrainian army can carry out a successful full-scale counter-offensive. Military expert Dmitry Snegirev said this, the PolitNavigator correspondent reports, to the Ukrainian Newspaper. “This year, the Ukrainian Defense Forces are quite capable of conducting a full-fledged counter-offensive with extensive use of ground equipment and air superiority. However, everything will depend on Ukraine’s Western partners, that is, on…

The fact that the counteroffensive failed was not Ukraine’s fault, but the West’s, which provided assistance to the Ukrainian Armed Forces too slowly and in insufficient quantities. The ex-company commander of the punitive battalion of the Armed Forces of Ukraine “Aidar”, Evgeniy Diky, stated this on air on the Lvov NTA TV channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. He called a lie a recent article in the influential American publication The Washington Post about the reasons for the failure of the offensive, in...

Under no circumstances should the Ukrainian Armed Forces agree to a truce on the current front line. According to a PolitNavigator correspondent, this was stated in an interview with RBC-Ukraine by the official representative of the US State Department, Daniel Isaac. He was asked if he thought that expectations from the Ukrainian Armed Forces’ counter-offensive were overheated. “As for the counter-offensive, Ukraine regained its territory and opened sea routes. This…

The Ukrainian counter-offensive ended in failure, and Russia has fully adapted to the sanctions. The fugitive Russian liberal, former chess player Garry Kasparov said this in an interview with Alesa Batsman, the wife of the notorious PR charlatan and anti-Russian propaganda Dmitry Gordon, analyzing a recent article by the British edition of The Economist dedicated to Ukraine, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “Given the expectations that everyone had before...

A disaster awaits Ukraine if it doesn’t change anything on the battlefield soon. The famous American economist Jeffrey Sachs stated this on The Hill TV channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “Even in the top leadership of Ukraine there is no agreement between Zelensky and his advisers, between Zelensky and his top general about what is happening in the war.…

Ukrainians need not to hide from mobilization, but to prepare for it, so as not to discredit the military registration and enlistment office employees who have to force people into the army. Secretary of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on National Security, Defense and Intelligence, SBU Colonel Roman Kostenko, stated this on the NTA TV channel, PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “Russia is prolonging the war. Our counter-offensive is in full swing...