MOSCOW, May 3rd. The Ukrainian army receives powerful missile strikes from Russia every day, but cannot respond to them, Oleg Soskin, a former adviser to Leonid Kuchma, said on his YouTube channel.
“All the time the Russians hit, hit, hit. forty, fifty, sixty <…> attacks, and Ukraine is not advancing and cannot do anything,» he lamented.
According to the expert, the timing of the planned counterattack is constantly being shifted, which disappoints Ukrainians and the Western public and weakens faith in any significant success of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
Ukrainian authorities have repeatedly announced a counteroffensive by the Kiev security forces. According to Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal, it could start in spring or summer. One of the directions of the attack is the Zaporozhye region with the aim of accessing the coast of the Sea of Azov.
As Russian presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov noted, Moscow carefully monitors any such statements and takes them into account when planning a special operation.