U.S. intelligence says Ukraine will fail to meet offensive’s key goal © Sasha Maslov for The Washington Post
Washington Post: U.S. intelligence says Ukraine will fail to meet offensive’s key goal
The U.S. intelligence community assesses that Ukraine’s counteroffensive will fail to reach the key southeastern city of Melitopol, people familiar with the classified forecast told The Washington Post, a finding that, should it prove correct, would mean Kyiv won’t fulfill its principal objective of severing Russia’s land bridge to Crimea in this year’s push.
The grim assessment is based on Russia’s brutal proficiency in defending occupied territory through a phalanx of minefields and trenches, and is likely to prompt finger pointing inside Kyiv and Western capitals about why a counteroffensive that saw tens of billions of dollars of Western weapons and military equipment fell short of its goals.
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WNU Editor: The Washington Post is a day late with this report. Seymour Hersh was reporting on this story yesterday .... CIA knows Ukraine’s counteroffensive will fail – Seymour Hersh (RT). His report is here .... SUMMER OF THE HAWKS: Wishful thinking is still the rule among Biden's foreign policy team, as the slaughter in Ukraine continues (Seymour Hersh).
7 comments:
There's a WHOLE lot of re-thinking going on, that boils down to essentially "what now??"
Wishful thinking also includes an inability to realize you've lost.
The story headline.
A Glaring statement off the Obvious.
Once again, in the last 12 weeks. what have we heard.???? .Blob lies.
Tell us again, how we should believe the Blob narrative?
Just who or what is the so called blob you refer to?
I do not understand the language of your hood. Try using the language that is understood by most people, please.
Sometimes war takes time people need to read more history. Ukraine under the circumstances is pushing forward and making ground compared to Russia's bloody offensive to take Bakmut which took how many months and WW1 casualties.
Fatman and Little Boy are at it again
Russia has made good on 300% of its goals
The fact is Ukraine is holding on against the second army in the world. Hate all you want. I’m all for Russia saving us from the LGBT loving west though.
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