Ukrainian soldiers fire toward a Russian position on the front line in the Zaporizhzhia region of Ukraine on June 24. (Efrem Lukatsky/AP)
Washington Post: Ukraine aims to sap Russia’s defenses, as U.S. urges a decisive breakthrough
Ukrainian commanders have yet to use the large-scale offensive tactics they have been trained on, as Kyiv says it needs more weapons to fight the war Washington wants
Ukraine is making limited advances in its counteroffensive against Russian forces but has yet to employ the kind of larger-scale operations that American officials believe could enable a breakthrough, officials and analysts say, deepening questions among some of Ukraine’s chief backers about whether Kyiv can move fast enough to match a finite supply of munitions and arms.
Five weeks into the highly anticipated operation, Ukrainian forces are attempting to weaken Russian defenses by firing fusillades of artillery and missiles and sending small teams of sappers into the sprawling minefields that constitute their adversary’s outermost ring of defense. But the pace of progress, in three main areas along a vast 600-mile front line, has generated concerns in the West that the government of President Volodymyr Zelensky may not deliver as powerful a blow as it could.
A U.S. official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to share the American assessment of the operation, said the United States and other nations had trained Ukrainian troops on integrated offensive maneuvers and provided mine-clearing equipment including rollers and rocket-fired charges.
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Update: US pressuring Ukraine for ‘decisive breakthrough’ – WaPo (RT)
WNU Editor: My sources in Ukraine tell me that President Zelensky was told by NATO leaders at Vilnius that he has a deadline to show progress. That deadline is November of this year.
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