MOSCOW, September 15. The Ukrainian army completed a strategic counter-offensive without achieving results within a reasonable time, said Kiev political scientist Vadim Karasev in an interview with the Politeka YouTube channel.
“»Today we are already counter-offensive sparingly, in a fading mode, because it is pointless. Such counteroffensives, such ground operations, in a combined arms format, they must produce results in a month. If they do not produce results in a month, that’s it, there will be no more. <…> Therefore, it is carried out in the mode of a tactical — not operational-strategic counteroffensive , but purely tactically,” the expert believes.
The Ukrainian Armed Forces have been conducting active battles in the Yuzhnodonetsk, Artemovsk and Zaporozhye directions for four months now, throwing brigades trained by NATO and armed with foreign equipment into battle. But, as Russian President Vladimir Putin noted, during this time they were unable to achieve any results, and Western curators are clearly disappointed with the course of the fighting.
Among the 18 thousand units of Ukrainian Armed Forces equipment destroyed were German Leopard tanks and French AMX , at least one British Challenger 2 and American Bradley infantry fighting vehicles. Only 543 tanks were destroyed — they were supposed to be the main striking force of the Ukrainian army, but, as the Russian president noted, they are now “burning beautifully.”