Daily News | Ukraine scores sudden breakthrough that should energize Western support
in northeast Ukraine that drove Russian forces back from much of the Kharkiv region. The Ukrainian military plans were kept so secret, and the advance was so speedy, that it stunned most foreign observers and most Ukrainians I’ve spoken to since then.
The counteroffensive has propelled the war into a new phase in which Ukraine is regaining territory, instead of being stuck in a drawn-out war of attrition. This blitz happened even though Ukraine is still short of all the vital long-range weapons it needs to counter the rockets and missiles that destroy its cities and soldiers.
But equally key was the strategy and professionalism of Ukrainian military planners . They duped Russian generals into sending tens of thousands of their best forces south by heavily publicizing a planned counteroffensive to retake the strategic port of Kherson. That left northern Russian defense lines undermanned.
Putin’s forces still occupy roughly one-fifth of Ukrainian territory, along with most of its coastline. Russia continues to pound Ukrainian cities and troops with rockets and missiles that have caused tens of thousands of casualties. Putin will look for“But such successes [as this past weekend] show us the way,” said Soboliev, whose WhatsApp line kept dying because he was speaking from a forest while serving with his unit.
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