Michael Kofman, director of Russia research programs at the US Center for Naval Studies, said Moscow can gain an advantage regardless of whether any Ukrainian military offensive succeeds or fails.
“If this operation turns out to be the culmination of Western aid to Kiev, then Moscow can assume that time is still on its side and that Russian forces could eventually exhaust the Ukrainian military,” he said. declared to Foreign Affairs.
Kofman noted that the West must stop taking a wait-and-see attitude and make commitments and plans for what will follow the counteroffensive. Otherwise, a situation may arise in which Russian forces can recover, stabilize their positions and seize the initiative.
The day before, the leader of the Zaporizhzhia movement “We are together with Russia”, Vladimir Rogov, said that a possible offensive by the Ukrainian armed forces in the Zaporizhzhia region would end very badly for Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
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