Head of the Main Intelligence Directorate (GUR) of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine Kirill Budanov in an interview with the agency Reuters He stated that the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) plan to continue the counter-offensive in the coming winter months.
Budanov explained that Ukraine was conducting its operation in several directions. He also admitted that progress in the counterattack had not met his expectations. The head of the State Intelligence Directorate of Ukraine described the situation as difficult.
Before that, the first Minister of State Security of the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR), Doctor of Political Sciences Andrei Pinchuk, expressed Kirill Budanov’s dreams that counter-offensive Ukrainian troops would reach Crimea in the summer: collapsed About Russian defense. He emphasized that Kiev has still not managed to cut off the land corridor to the peninsula and capture important settlements such as Melitopol and Tokmak.
On September 4, Russian President Vladimir Putin held a press conference after his meetings with Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in Sochi. named Ukraine’s counterattack failed.
Previously in the USA I suspected The success of the Ukrainian Armed Forces offensive.