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The Ukrainian Counteroffensive Is Not an Action Movie
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The Ukrainian counteroffensive, under way since the spring, is slogging through miles of trenches and minefields. Progress will depend on the battlefield, not on Western impatience.
First, here are four new stories from The Atlantic:
Dragging On, as It Must
Attacking an entrenched
Drone Attacks on Russia Show Evidence of Ukraine’s Other Counteroffensive
At least three different Ukrainian-made drones have been used in attacks inside Russia, including Moscow, according to an analysis by The New York Times, indicating a Ukrainian role in strikes that the government in Kyiv has long shrouded in mystery.
Ukrainian officials have declined to claim or deny responsibility for drone strikes on Russian territory. But the three drone models, which appear capable of flying hundreds of miles from Ukraine to Moscow, were used in strikes in Russia.
The Times
Extensive Minefields Impede Ukraine’s Counteroffensive, Military Experts Say
Extensive minefields laid by Russian forces are proving among the toughest obstacles facing Ukraine’s counteroffensive, and the tools that Kyiv’s military has for removing them are inadequate, according to experts.
Russia has deployed minefields in “innovative ways” as part of multiple lines of defense, according to Rob Lee, a senior fellow with the Foreign Policy Research Institute in Philadelphia. In the initial phase of Kyiv’s counteroffensive, which began in early June, Ukrainian forces took significant casualties and were slowed in
Ukraine Recaptures Staromaiorske, a Glimmer of Success for Counteroffensive
For 10 days, Ukrainian marines fought street by street and house by house to recapture the southeastern village of Staromaiorske, navigating artillery fire, airstrikes and hundreds of Russian troops.
The Russians put up a ferocious defense but that ended on Thursday when they folded and the Ukrainians claimed victory. “Some ran away, some were left behind,” said an assault commander from Ukraine’s 35th Marine Brigade, who uses the call sign Dikyi, which means Wild. “We were taking captives,” he added.
Nuclear weapons on the table if Ukraine counteroffensive succeeds: Russia’s Medvedev – POLITICO
If Ukraine’s ongoing counteroffensive against Moscow’s invasion captures Russian territory, there would be no alternative to using strategic nuclear weapons, Russia’s Dmitry Medvedev warned on Sunday.
“There would simply be no other way out” of using nuclear weapons if the Ukrainian offensive succeeded in taking Russian territory, Medvedev, former Russian president and current National Security Council deputy chairman, said in a post on social media.
“Just imagine that the NATO-supported ukrobanderovtsy’s offensive turned out successful, and they took away
Putin’s ally claims successful counter-offensive would force Russia to use nuclear weapon | World | News
Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev claimed Russia would have no choice but to deploy nuclear weapons if the Ukrainian counter-offensive was successful.
Mr Medvedev, who is deputy chair of Russia’s security council, seemingly took to his social media accounts to celebrate Russia’s Navy Day.
In a long message on Twitter, the leader of the ruling United Russia party claimed that the Russian Army isn’t just defending its country’s citizens by fighting Kyiv’s counter-offensive in occupied Ukraine.
He wrote on Twitter:
Ukraine’s Counteroffensive Makes Some Gains, but Questions Remain
Battles raged in southern Ukraine on Thursday, as Kyiv’s stepped-up offensive against the Russian occupation made small gains, according to Russian, Ukrainian and Western analysts and officials, but the scope of the assaults and their toll remained unclear.
A day after U.S. officials said the main thrust of Ukraine’s counteroffensive appeared to have begun, President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia said, “We confirm that hostilities have intensified and in a significant way.”
But there was minimal, and sometimes contradictory, information
Ukraine May Have Launched Main Counteroffensive Thrust, U.S. Says
Ukraine has launched the main thrust of its counteroffensive, throwing in thousands of troops held in reserve, many of them Western-trained and equipped, two Pentagon officials said on Wednesday, hours after Russian officials reported major Ukrainian attacks in the southern Zaporizhzhia region.
A spokesman for Russia’s Defense Ministry, Igor Konashenkov, said the Ukrainians had mounted a “massive” assault with three battalions, reinforced with tanks, south of the town of Orikhiv, and then another a few miles farther south near the
The Miles of Obstacles Slowing Ukraine’s Counteroffensive
Three weeks in, Ukraine has made little progress toward one of its main lines of attack in southern Ukraine. Russia has a crucial ally: the unforgiving terrain of the south.
Territory reclaimed by
Ukraine since June 4
Wide-open fields leave little room for cover for Ukrainian troops, tanks and armored vehicles.
1 mile from
the front line
Fields surrounded
by tree lines
Trees line the edges of those fields, concealing Russian forces and shielding them from aerial observation.
5 miles