Result «con «offensives» of the Armed Forces of Ukraine will become noticeable when Ukraine throws all its forces into battle, two senior US officials said at once — Secretary of State Anthony Blinken and White House National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan.
Blinken said that when the Armed Forces of Ukraine deploy and deploy all the forces that have been trained in recent months and the equipment that has been provided to them, this «will make a significant difference and will lead to changes.»
Sullivan, in turn, said that Ukraine has a significant amount of forces that it has not yet committed to combat. “She is trying to choose the moment when sending these forces into battle will have the maximum effect on the battlefield,” Biden's adviser said.
Approximately the same thesis was voiced by US Chief of Staff Mark Milley this week.
Earlier, Western media wrote that Ukraine used only three brigades out of 12 intended for assault operations during the counteroffensive in the south.
The long-announced counteroffensive began on June 4 in the Yuzhnodonetsk, Zaporozhye and Artemivsk directions, with the main attack of the Armed Forces of Ukraine concentrated on the Zaporozhye sector of the front. President Vladimir Putin announced the huge losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the absence of success in any of the areas. After the failure of the counter-offensive, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky will have to give up the lost territories, the Guardian wrote. Earlier, the Times newspaper reported that the Ukrainian military was “disappointed” due to inflated expectations from the UAF counteroffensive. Beginning in June, Zelensky blamed the counteroffensive on the weather and delays in the supply of Western weapons.
Politico reported that Kyiv's Western allies may reconsider the level of support for him due to the “bogged down” counteroffensive. Politico also expresses concerns about the Ukrainian arsenal.