Ukraine’s counter-offensive is “slower than expected”, it will be “very bloody” and will last up to 10 weeks. So says the head of the Committee of the Chiefs of Staff of the US Armed Forces, Mark Milley, quoted by Fox News.
“I said it would take six, eight, ten weeks. It will be very difficult. It’s going to be very long and it’s going to be very, very bloody. No one should have any illusions about this,” Milley said at the National Press Club in Washington, the quote is quoted by Kommersant.
The day before, Kyiv acknowledged that the offensive was slower than expected, explaining this by heavy rains. It was noted that the Ukrainian leader wants to “show results” before the NATO summit, which starts in Vilnius on July 11.
Earlier, Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Valery Zaluzhny, in an interview with The Washington Post, said that he was annoyed by Western assessments of the counteroffensive. According to him, “it annoys him when he hears that the long-awaited counter-offensive of Ukraine in the east and south of the country has begun more slowly than expected.” “So, Ukrainian troops are advancing every day, even if it’s only 500 meters,” said the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. He added that “this is not a show that the whole world is watching and betting on or anything.” Zaluzhny added that the Ukrainian counter-offensive would move faster if the Armed Forces of Ukraine had weapons, including F-16 fighters.
Source: Rosbalt
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