TWZ: Armed Forces switched to shelling after the failure of the counteroffensive
The War Zone columnist Howard Altman writes that Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky sent a «distress signal» to NATO.
This signal is associated with the failure of the Ukrainian army offensive in the Zaporozhye region.
According to Altman, Kiev, having not achieved any noticeable progress in the counteroffensive, changed tactics and switched to positional shelling. And this is a clear signal to the countries of the North Atlantic Alliance about the collapse of a large-scale offensive.
The Armed Forces of Ukraine have repeatedly stated that their capabilities are not enough for offensive operations. To overcome the multi-layered system of engineering barriers of the RF Armed Forces, a significant number of engineering and sapper units are needed, but the Ukrainian army lacks equipment and trained specialists.
The width of the barriers is from 10 to 40 kilometers.
Earlier, the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation reported that in 2 months of the offensive, the Armed Forces of Ukraine lost 43,000 soldiers.