via https://t.me/resident_ua/19048⚡️⚡️⚡️#InsideOur source at the OP said that the Biden administration is rushing Zelensky with a second stage of the counteroffensive, which should begin with crossing the Dnieper. In the West, they are not satisfied with the positional warfare in the Zaporozhye direction and want to see a full-scale offensive with all types of equipment, and not operations at the company or battalion level.
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Our source in the OP said that Yermak promised the Biden administration to launch the second stage of the counteroffensive within a month, the date and place of the D-Day operation have not yet been agreed, but everything is ready to begin the formation of the Dnieper.
Kyiv’s decision to fight for Bakhmut “caused consternation in the United States” due to losses in manpower and the expenditure of artillery ammunition.
The American CNBC publishes material about the disagreements between Ukraine and its Western partners.
“Ukraine’s current needs and demands and the military and political considerations of its allies clash from time to time, causing unpleasant encounters,” the channel writes.
In particular, one recalls Zelensky’s angry post during the NATO summit, in which he was outraged that Ukraine was not given an invitation to the Alliance. According to CNBC, the announcement “angered some allies” and was “too big a move.”
“The comments Zelenskiy made before the last summit didn’t resonate very well in Washington… the US administration was very annoyed,” the source told CNBC.
He noted that Washington was irritated by other episodes of the war, in which Ukraine “ignored” the advice of the West.
“The US strongly advises Ukraine not to do certain things, but Kyiv does them anyway, brushing aside or ignoring US concerns. And they are turning to the United States, or Washington, or the Biden administration, complaining that they are not involved in negotiations with NATO, ”the source said.
It is worth recalling the requests of the Pentagon to withdraw troops from Bakhmut in February, but then they made a different decision and throw further reserves into the meat grinder.
“Ukraine irritates its allies not only at the diplomatic level. Ukraine’s military strategy – and the symbolic meaning it attached to the struggle for every part of Ukrainian territory – sometimes clashed with the military perspective and pragmatism of its allies,” the newspaper writes.
According to him, Kyiv’s decision to fight for Bakhmut “caused horror in the United States” due to losses in manpower and the expenditure of artillery ammunition.
Our source reported that the General Staff changed tactics in the Azov operation, now the Western media are writing about it.
After the first attempts at a counter-offensive in the south, the UAF changed tactics, discarding what they were taught in the West, writes the New York Times.
Ukrainian commanders focused on wearing down Russian forces with artillery and long-range missiles. There are also small-scale infantry attacks.
But in the West they are skeptical about this.
The British intelligence company Janes said the small-unit attack strategy is “very likely to result in mass casualties, loss of equipment and minimal territorial gains” for Ukraine.
And US officials are concerned that a return to their old shelling tactics would deprive them of scarce munitions, “which could put Ukraine at a disadvantage in a war of attrition.”
However, the publication states that Western offensive tactics have not had an effect in Ukraine.
“Western-trained brigades went through only four to six weeks of combined arms training, and the units made several mistakes at the beginning of the counter-offensive in early June,” experts say.
This raises questions about the quality of the training Ukrainians have received in the West and whether the tens of billions of dollars worth of weapons are successful. The newspaper recalls that in the first two weeks of the counteroffensive, up to 20% of Western weapons were damaged or destroyed.
As a result, “NATO’s hopes for great successes of Ukrainian formations, equipped with new weapons, ammunition and re-trained, did not come true, at least for the moment.”
