The tactical success of the Ukrainian counter-offensive is directly related to increased cooperation with American intelligence, - New York Times
From the very beginning of the special operation, the United States provided the Ukrainian side with the information they had on the movements of Russian troops, the location of command posts, ammunition depots and other key facilities. Now, US intelligence not only shares information, but also directly participates in the planning of offensives, writes the New York Times.
The success of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was influenced by the operational training of the special forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the organization of the operational exchange of intelligence between the United States and Ukraine. In July-August, the infrastructure for collecting and analyzing intelligence data was greatly adjusted.
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However, we call bullshit on this report. From the very beginning, Americans and Brits planned every move of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, and also shared every bit of information they could get their hands on. Basically any successful move of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in this war was immediately declared an American win by US media, this is simply propaganda.
The success of the Ukrainian Armed Forces is thanks to 6 months of hoarding of equipment and reserving trained forces for this exact purpose. They were sending territorial defense civilians into the meat grinder while reserving the remainder of their trained forces preciously behind the front lines.
It took them half a year to accumulate the equipment from the west, most of which they have now lost.
The difference between Russia and Ukraine in this successful pushback of the Russian military is that Russia can advance again, they have the hardware, ammo & weapons — pretty much endlessly. Ukraine, not so much. They’re giving it everything they got, quite literally. Everything they were able to mass up over the course of the war. They will eventually run out of the hardware and troops and will be back to square one. They’re currently outnumbering Russian Armed Forces troops 4 to 1. (Or were, when they started the Kharkov counter offensive)
We’ve seen the Ukrainian Armed Forces counter offensive start strong in Kherson and eventually run out of steam, the same will happen in the eastern direction. As men die, hardware is decimated, Ukrainian Armed Forces have no comeback; because it’s all they got.
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Additionally, this all depends on your point of view. Russians barely took any casualties in this Ukrainian counter offensive. They were given orders to withdraw as soon as Ukrainian Armed Forces came within 4 KM of their positions.
From 1 point of view, they should’ve been ordered to attack and take casualties, hold onto the villages — so it is a failure of the Russian Armed Forces leadership.
From another point of view, the Russian Armed Forces leadership decided Kharkov is not worth the lives of the Russian Armed Forces troops and rethought their strategy and ordered them to retreat.
In any case, both scenarios are a failure, just depends on what you prefer. Dead Ukrainians and dead Russians, with villages preserved — or dead Ukrainians and minimal losses for Russians, with villages lost.
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