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Det e förvånansvärt tyst i rapporteringen om förluster.
jo du har rätt - tystnaden i sig är talande om motoffensiven
Här en analys i en amerikansk konservativ tidskrift
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/2023/07/19/why-ukraines-counter-offensive-is-failing/
"It’s not that Zelensky’s forces are “going slowly” forward, it’s that they aren’t attaining any of their initial tactical objectives on the way to the Azov coast and it’s precisely because the combat fundamentals necessary to win are largely (and in some cases entirely) absent.
They flatly don’t have the human resources or physical infrastructure necessary to succeed.
To continue trying will tragically result in yet more UAF troops being killed, Ukrainian cities destroyed, and push prospects for peace ever further away.
I understand everyone wants Ukraine to win and Russia to lose. But continuing to persist in pursuing that aspiration won’t change the ground truth realities. The course of action that holds out the best hope for Zelensky to emerge from this war with Ukraine retaining its political viability is to agree to a ceasefire so that negotiations can begin."
Här en artikel i Politico från april där man beskriver att inte ens CIA trodde på att Kiev skulle nå framgångar i motoffensiven men man ville ge dem en chans ändå.
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/04/24/biden-ukraine-russia-counteroffensive-defense-00093384
"U.S. officials have also briefed Ukraine on the dangers of
overextending its ambitions and spreading its troops too thin — the same warning Biden gave then-Afghan President Ashraf Ghani as the Taliban moved to sweep across the country during the U.S. military withdrawal in 2021."
Biden vill inte ha ett nytt Afganistan debacle att stå till svars för på hemmaplan.