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Ukrainian soldiers fire from an American M777 howitzer in the Donetsk region. Archival photoMOSCOW, 12 Jul. The offensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in southern Ukraine will fail, at least because the command warned in advance of their intentions, Jack Watling, a senior researcher at the Royal Institute of Research, believes. He was quoted by the Independent newspaper. As a British specialist noted, a counterstrike cannot be carried out by forces of a million army. therefore, they call on everyone in a row. «Usually you need operational surprise when you start a counterattack,» Watling recalled. According to him, by publicly voicing their plans, the Kyiv authorities allowed Russia to carefully prepare in advance and concentrate resources to neutralize a potential threat. Previously, the Ukrainian Minister of Defense Aleksey Reznikov, in an interview with The Times, said that he is forming «million-strong combat forces equipped with Western weapons» to carry out the order to «liberate» the southern coastal regions, «vital to the country's economy.» As Mikhail Sheremet, State Duma deputy from the Crimean region, noted, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is losing on all fronts, but continues to push his state towards inevitable collapse. In his opinion, such orders testify to the political agony of the Kyiv regime. Since February 24, Russia has been conducting a special operation to liberate Donbass. Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kyiv regime for eight years.» The Ministry of Defense reported that the army had already completed the main tasks of the first stage — significantly reduced the combat potential of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. APU in Donbass