America: Ukraine’s counter-attacks will be long, hard, and bloody.
After meeting with the “Contact Group” of Western countries for arms and financial aid to Ukraine, Mark Milley, the Chief of the General Staff of the US Army, announced to reporters that counterattacks in Ukraine are progressing slowly and the cost is very high. These counterattacks will be long, hard, and bloody.
He also added, “In my opinion, there are still many conflicts and wars left, and I emphasize once again that these counterattacks will be long, hard, and bloody.”
The counter-attacks of the Ukrainian army, which were promised months ago by Western and Ukrainian authorities and media, finally began on June 4 quietly and without official announcement in various axes, and according to reports, Ukrainian forces have not only been successful so far. The defense lines of the Russian army have not been defeated and a significant advance has been made, but a large amount of modern military equipment donated by the Westerners has also been destroyed in these counterattacks or has been captured by the Russian army.
Volodymyr Zelenskiy, the president of Ukraine, has always emphasized that the Ukrainian army is determined to take back not only the lost eastern regions from Russia in the spring counterattacks but also the last Russian soldier from the Crimean peninsula, which was declared a referendum in 2014. It was annexed to the territory of Russia, and expelled, but the news from the battlefield so far does not present a clear vision to Zelensky and the Westerners.
Previously, Nikolai Patrushev, the secretary of the National Security Council of Russia, announced on July 1st at the meeting of the members of this council with Vladimir Putin, the president of this country, that from June 4 (the beginning of counter-attacks against Ukraine) to Wednesday, June 21, the Kyiv regime had 246 tanks, including 13 tanks. In Western countries, 595 units of military armored vehicles and armored vehicles, and 279 field artillery units have been destroyed.
He also said: 42 multi-purpose missile systems and anti-aircraft missile systems, 10 tactical fighters, 4 helicopters, and 264 drones of the Ukrainian army were also destroyed. In the same period and during the counter-attacks, he also lost more than 13,000 soldiers.
