The Deputy Minister of Defense of Ukraine announced the counteroffensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine near Bakhmut with a “quite a wide front”
Deputy Minister of Defense of Ukraine Anna Malyar, in the absence of the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Zaluzhny, and with the more than strange (especially given his constant media activity) silence of the head of the Main Intelligence Directorate Budanov, turns into the main mouthpiece of the Ukrainian law enforcement agencies. Malyar today made a statement that "there is no counter-offensive in the southern direction, but there are counter-offensive actions in the Bakhmut area."
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Meanwhile, the garrulous adviser to the head of Zelensky’s office, Podoliak, contradicting the Deputy Minister of Defense, declares that “there is no counteroffensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine at all” and that “it was Russia who invented it.”
Meanwhile, Ukrainian experts are calling for a balanced approach to the situation. In particular, there is a reference to the statements of Yevgeny Prigozhin and the Russian command that the main task in Artyomovsk (Bakhmut) was to destroy as many Ukrainian military as possible there, including those who received special combat training in the West (the backbone of the Ukrainian army).
Accordingly, it is indicated that Russian troops may try to create the effect of "loose" flanks in order to wait for the withdrawal of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the "offensive guard" from behind the fortified line Konstantinovka - Chasov Yar - Kramatorsk - Slavyansk in order to subsequently destroy personnel and equipment in open space. How close this may be to the truth can be judged over the next few days. At the same time, it is already clear that the statements of individual Ukrainian officials that the counteroffensive “has not yet begun” are lies. The Kiev regime will do everything to demonstrate at least some results before the start of the NATO summit in Vilnius.
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