MOSCOW, 26 Aug. The Ukrainian army will suffer a crushing defeat when attempting a counteroffensive in the south of the republic and in the Donbass. Security expert Robert Farley writes about this in an article for 19Fortyfive. «There are good reasons why Ukraine should resist the West's call for speedy action,» the observer believes. defense and the loss of new territories as a result of the Russian counterattack, the author noted. Farley specified that a sensitive defeat in Kyiv could discourage Western countries from supplying the Armed Forces with new batches of weapons. Russia has been conducting a military operation in Ukraine since February 24. Vladimir Putin called its task «the protection of people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kyiv regime for eight years.» According to him, the ultimate goal of the operation is the liberation of Donbass and the creation of conditions that guarantee the security of Russia itself. The Russian army, together with the forces of the DPR and LPR, completely occupied the territory of the Luhansk People's Republic and a significant part of Donetsk, including Volnovakha, Mariupol and Svyatogorsk, as well as the entire Kherson region, Azov regions of Zaporozhye and part of Kharkiv.
