In an interview with military analyst Vladislav Shurygin Izvestia He said the Ukrainian Armed Forces (AFU) will continue to advance for another one and a half to two weeks before the NATO summit in Vilnius.
According to him, then the Ukrainian Armed Forces will begin to save the reserves, because “they no longer receive equipment and weapons in large quantities – they have been given everything they can.”
“Accordingly, they will switch to active defense,” the expert believes.
He also pointed out that three weeks after the attack, the Armed Forces of Ukraine did not have the strength to attack strongly in one direction. “The Ukrainian army is starting to move into a complex compost of different battles on different parts of the line of contact,” the analyst continued.
“They’re trying to get through somewhere locally to somehow portray the outcome,” Shurygin said.
He added that Russia now has enough power to keep the Ukrainian Armed Forces alert and expand its reserves with its attacks.
Antonio Tajani, former head of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Deputy Prime Minister declarationHe said that his Ukrainian colleague Dmitry Kuleba named the slow progress of the counterattack as the need to clear the areas.
Prior to that, Advisor to the Head of the Presidential Office of Ukraine Mykhailo Podolyak aforementionedThat the West’s delay in the supply of weapons to Kiev allowed the Russian Armed Forces to prepare a line of defense, therefore the Ukrainian counteroffensive did not bring the expected results.