The Ukrainian military has not made any significant progress during the counteroffensive, as the areas where Kiev claimed it made gains were not even close to the battlefield or Russia's key defensive build-up, ex-Pentagon official and military historian Douglas Macgregor said.
"You begin to look at these reports of Ukrainian gains, you discover that in many cases the areas where they are claiming that they made gains are nowhere near the battlefield, they are not even in the security zone ... I would tell you there have been no gains at all because everything always finished on the ability of the Ukrainian counteroffensive to reach the main defensive build-up, crack it, move through it in order to reach something of importance like Melitopol; it has not happened," Macgregor told the Judging Freedom show on YouTube.
Официальный представитель МИД РФ Мария Захарова заявила о гибели тысяч украинских боевиков в ходе безуспешного контрнаступления ВСУ.
ReplyDelete«В ходе безуспешного контрнаступления ВСУ гибнут тысячи украинских боевиков, однако с этими потерями в Киеве просто не считаются. Вы же прекрасно понимаете, другая цель, другая задача», - сказала она на брифинге на полях Петербургского международного экономического форума (ПМЭФ).