Repelled more than ten attacks in just 24 hours. This is the result of the Ukrainian counter-offensive two days after the mercenary group’s attempted coup wagner. A progress that is indeed not going as expected by both the leaders of Kiev and the Atlantic Alliance. It was the same this Saturday Zelenskyy admitting that the counteroffensive was going “slower than expected,” only to move on to revelations from CNN, which instead said Washington too would be particularly disappointed with the results so far.
The situation on the field
The Russians continue to defend their conquests around the Donbass region, and it is directly the Russian ministry that says the army has refused Attacks by the Ukrainian resistance in four front areas. “In the last 24 hours, Ukrainian forces have made an attempted attack, which was successfully repelled by the Moscow army, particularly in the regions.” Donetsk And Zaporizhia. A situation that has also held back Kiev’s leadership, although military leaders instead said on Saturday that they had made progress in the counter-offensive.
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Minister of Defense of Ukraine, Dmytro KulebaHe said he had an “exchange of views” with US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken. However, the content of the conversation was not specified and only reiterated that “Ukraine remains focused on achieving the goals of the counteroffensive.” But the most uncomfortable hypothesis for Zelenskyy cannot be ruled out, namely that of an alert highlighted by the White House about the results that are scarce on the battlefield.
The possible breakthrough
However, a novelty has arrived in these last few hours. In fact, the Ukrainian army passed the river Dnipro at Kherson, with a hundred men from the assault units, who have meanwhile taken refuge in the buildings around the Antonovsky Bridge, in the areas of the region still under the control of the Russian enemy. The military is protected by artillery fire and blackout systems capable of preventing the flight of Moscow drones and sending the coordinates of the Ukrainians’ location to hit them with pinpoint accuracy.
A front that could therefore lead to the birth of a breakthrough point in the south, in the areas of Kherson, but flanked by the stalemate in the north-east of the country, in the areas of Bakhmut, the real target of this latest counter-offensive by Kiev. The withdrawal of Kremlin troops, as already stated on Saturday by the Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine, Oleksiy Danilov, has not yet arrived and it seems that the fighting will continue for a long time. We need to determine how long the Ukrainian resistance will be able, both numerically and militarily, to support the counteroffensive. And how the American ally will react in case of negative results.