'This is not going to be 'Pac Man'; this is going to be, at some point, a breakthrough,' general_ben Hodges told Newsweek of Kyiv's counteroffensive.
and on the southern Zaporizhzhia front. Other battles are continuing along the 800-mile contact line, with Russian forces reportedly on the offensive in northeastern Luhansk Oblast.
"This is not going to be 'Pac Man'; this is going to be, at some point, a breakthrough," Hodges said, noting that most of Ukraine's heavy armor formations have not yet jointed the fight."I'm not sure when or where, but at some point, you get through these defenses and then the whole momentum and nature of things can change.","or other weapons systems that can reach further than they can reach right now.".
Former commander of U.S. Army Europe Lieutenant-General Ben Hodges is pictured at the GLOBSEC 2023 Bratislava Forum in Slovakia on May 30, 2023. Hodges told Newsweek that Ukrainian troops could soon liberate Crimea if they are provided with sufficient Western military aid.The White House has been hesitant to provide Kyiv with its longest-range munitions, fearing that Ukrainian strikes deep inside Russian territory may provoke a Kremlin escalation, perhaps even a nuclear one.
This file photo shows an ATACMS being fired during a joint-training exercise between the U.S. and South Korea at an undisclosed location on October 5, 2022. The long-range munition has so far been denied to Ukraine for fear of provoking Russian retaliation and depleting American stocks.
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