Ukraine's leaders appear to be lowering expectations about a much-anticipated new offensive against occupying Russian forces, as President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Thursday that the conditions on the battlefield are not quite right while Kyiv's foreign...
’s leaders appear to be lowering expectations about a much-anticipated offensive against occupying Russian forces, as President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Thursday that the conditions on the battlefield are not quite right. Kyiv’s foreign minister noted that a counterattack may only be one of many battles to come.
With much riding on the campaign to reclaim Russian-occupied lands in the east and south, Mr. Zelenskyy said in an interview that his forces are still waiting for more equipment such as armored vehicles promised by Western allies. “With [what we have] we can go forward and be successful. But we’d lose a lot of people and I think that’s unacceptable,” Mr. Zelenskyy said Thursday in an interview with European public service broadcasters. “So, we need to wait.”
recently announced that it was organizing nine newly formed brigades equipped with Western tanks and armored vehicles in preparation for the spring assault.once the weather improved. Both sides have remained essentially in a stalemate following Kyiv’s liberation last summer of hundreds of square miles of territory.
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said it was premature to say that the next major military mission will be the last battle of their war against“We don’t know what will become of it. If we succeed in liberating our territories with this counteroffensive, then at the end of the day you will say, ‘Yes, it was the last one,’” Mr. Kuleba said Wednesday in an interview with the German newspaper Bild. “But if not, that means we have to prepare for the next counteroffensive.
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