“I think that Russia really wants some kind of big revanche. I think it has started it. And I think that they will not be able to provide their society with any convincing positive result in the offensive,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said.
As he so often has in the past year, Putin made a direct comparison between his attempted conquest of Ukraine and what Russians refer to as the Great Patriotic War. “Again and again we are forced to repel the aggression of the collective West,” he said.
“I think that Russia really wants some kind of big revanche. I think it has started it. And I think that they will not be able to provide their society with any convincing positive result in the offensive,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said at a Friday press conference in Odesa with Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen.
Last month, Russia reshuffled its war leadership, appointing General Valery V. Gerasimov, the Chief of the General Staff, the overall commander of forces in Ukraine, and demoting his predecessor, Gen. Sergey Surovikin to one of three deputies. The British Defence Ministrythis move “an indicator of the increasing seriousness of the situation Russia is facing, and a clear acknowledgement that the campaign is falling short of Russia’s strategic goals.
A Ukrainian serviceman holds a portrait of his brother-in-arms Volodymyr Androshchuk, who was recently killed in a fight against Russian troops near the Bakhmut town, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, during a funeral ceremony in the town of Letychiv, Khmelnytskyi region, Ukraine February 1, 2023. REUTERS/Valentyn Ogirenko
Russian forces have also been looking to gain ground around Vuhledar, in southern Donetsk, using the TOS-1A thermobaric MLRS to bombard the city still solidly in Kyiv’s hands. Yet Ukrainian and Russian military sources have said that the push for Vuhledar only led to heavy casualties for the Russian army, a claim that appeared to be confirmed by images posted on social media of dead bodies and destroyed equipment.
Part of the new American weapons package for Ukraine announced by the Pentagon Friday is a consignment of Ground-Launched Small Diameter Bombs , a rocket-launched ground version of the air-launched GBU-39 Small Diameter Bomb, which first entered service in the U.S. Air Force in 2006 and has since been used successfully in numerous wars. Guided by the Global Positioning System, the GLSDB operates in all conditions and is exceptionally accurate, hitting within a meter of its designated target.
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