Some U.S. officials are frustrated at the pace of Ukraine’s counteroffensive, which has gained less than 100 square miles of territory.
  • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmygrad.mlOP
    352·
    1 year ago

    As of yesterday, it’s been 2 months since the beginning of Ukraine’s offensive. Since then, the Armed Forces of Ukraine have been able to capture an area of around 360.49KM^2, or around 0.02% of Russian controlled area. This came at a cost of extreme losses. Ukraine lost around 20% of the weaponry Ukraine sent to the battlefield, according to U.S. and European officials in just the first two weeks. While western media doesn’t report personnel losses, it’s pretty clear they must be in many thousands given stunning loss of equipment Ukraine has suffered.

    Pentagon, and NATO, have put a deadline on the Armed Forces of Ukraine for September-November time-range for them to achieve significant results in terms of territorial gains. The west has already threatened to reduce support when they fail.

    It seems like we are slowly but surely approaching the end of the narrative here.

    • redtea@lemmygrad.ml
      25·
      1 year ago

      This is so tragic. The west did this to Ukraine before and these fucks have invited them again. All through the 90s, the IMF or World Bank would give a loan, then refuse to pay a tranche unless Ukraine made deeper and deeper cuts. Then one or the other would offer a loan to cover the interest, so the next time they needed to borrow money, they had to borrow enough to cover the second, third, etc, loan; all the while, the bigger the loan, the worse the terms and the deeper the terms.

    • freagle@lemmygrad.ml
      12·
      1 year ago

      Can you get me sources for the amount of area recaptured? I got a lib saying Ukraine has recovered over 1/3 of territory lost.

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmygrad.mlOP
      201·
      1 year ago

      The attack on Kerch bridge is obviously not a spur of the moment thing, it likey took months to plan out. I suspect that the bigger picture here is that these attacks were supposed to happen in conjunction with a big Ukrainian breakthrough during the offensive, and then Blinken was going to put pressure on Russia’s allies in the upcoming summit in Jeddah to force them to accept US position.

      Looking from that perspective we can see what the probable US plan for ending the war was. Have a big victory on the battlefield, and combine it with attacks on Moscow, oil shipping, and cut off the bridge to Crimea. This would’ve been sold as Russia getting routed on all fronts, and then they were hoping that this would be enough to force Russia’s allies to start having doubts which could be exploited in Jeddah. Of course, the reality is that the key component of this strategy failed utterly. Now, Blinken will go to Jeddah and likely face a reverse situation of what he hoped for where everyone will tell him that US needs to start accepting reality and negotiate with Russia.