Ukrainian Deputy Defense Minister Anna Malyar urged not to discuss the counterattack of Ukrainian troops. She announced it on social networks she.
He cited, for example, the operation of the Ukrainian Armed Forces to liberate the Kharkiv region in September, emphasizing that no one openly discussed this before the start of the counteroffensive, which allowed “the army to buy time and do its job”.
“There is no need to question the experts in the air – what about the counterattack, no need to blog and write about it, no need to publicly discuss our military’s military plans. We have one strategic plan to liberate all our territories. And the details are already a military secret, ”Malyar said.
He also added that only three people can disclose the plans of the Armed Forces of Ukraine: the President, the Minister of Defense and the Commander-in-Chief of the Ukrainian Army, and the rest can “just cite”.
Former President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky said that the Ukrainian army is now fail make a counterattack in the east direction as there are no necessary weapons there.
Before that, Denis Pushilin, interim vice president of the Donetsk People’s Republic, said that Western countries, including the USA, push To the beginning of the Ukrainian counter-offensive.
On February 24, 2022, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that he had decided to organize a special military operation in Ukraine in response to a request for assistance from the heads of the LPR and DPR.
The decision to run the operation became the justification for new sanctions against Russia by the United States and its allies.