Scott Ritter: Ukrainian Counteroffensive’s Second Week Ends in Failure

No surprise there. The Russians are kicking butt. From Scott Ritter at sputnikglobe.com:

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Operation enters the second week of Ukraine’s long-awaited and highly touted counteroffensive, some basic conclusions can be drawn even though the fighting continues, and will continue to rage, for some time to come.

First and foremost, the counteroffensive gambit has failed. While there is still considerable combat strength left in the Ukrainian military, including more than 75% of the NATO-trained and -equipped 60,000-strong cohort Ukraine had assembled in the past eight months, fundamentally flawed assumptions about the quality of the force on which Ukraine and its NATO allies had placed their collective hopes for victory over Russia have been exposed. In short, Ukraine lacks the military capacity to overcome Russian defenses.

Ukraine’s most elite assault brigades, equipped with the latest Western military technology, failed to advance out of what Russian defensive doctrine calls the “cover” line of defense—the buffer that is designed to channel and disrupt an attacking force prior to reaching the “main” line of defense. Ukrainian casualties were extremely heavy, with Russia achieving a 10:1 kill ratio in terms of manpower, which is unsustainable from the Ukrainian perspective. The reasons for the Ukrainian failure are fundamental in nature, meaning that they cannot be overcome as things currently stand and, as such, the Ukrainian military has zero chance of success, no matter how hard they press subsequent attacks.

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One response to “Scott Ritter: Ukrainian Counteroffensive’s Second Week Ends in Failure

  1. Realm Of Chaos's avatar Realm Of Chaos

    Klaus wants WWIII on slow burn until 2024.
    The CPUSA believes in that no preezy of the steezy ever lost re-election during war mantra.
    A bunch of KIA whiteys in the Kraine is a huge feature to the Kalergi Plan true believers of all bought and paid for governments.
    The MIC can always make more WAR material and fatten up the bottom line.

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