In recent weeks, US media have published articles containing testimonies from senior US officials Pentagon criticism of the strategy Ukraine at war against Russia. The criticism in the US comes at a delicate time Kyiv. Ukraine is struggling to make headway in its counter-offensive, and results have been poor given the high expectations placed on the spring counter-offensive.
The truth is that Russia is defending its positions with all its might Weapons sent from the west It was not enough to break through the defense lines in the south of the country. The Controversial Analysis of American Strategists alleged ineffectiveness of the Ukrainian offensive They are based on the idea that the military authorities are massing troops in the wrong places.
From Ukraine, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Dimitro Kuleba, has responded with harsh criticism against those who “from the sofa” criticize the counter-offensive of the Kiev troops for not having achieved the expected results.
“Someone sitting on a sofa or a comfortable lounge suite and taking the liberty of criticizing the pace of Ukraine’s counteroffensive “He criticizes every soldier who fought, who made sacrifices, who lost comrades and who won every kilometer over a minefield, every victory against the Russians in a trench,” Kuleba said.
The head of Ukraine’s diplomacy pointed out that this criticism came more from journalists and so-called “salon experts” than from other government ministers: “They look at their phones and say: ‘This is going very slowly, can you hurry?'” ‘ .
“When we talk to our counterpart, with Ministers receiving official information from our army “And thanks to our intelligence, detailed and detailed information, nobody has any complaints about the course of the Ukrainian counteroffensive,” Kuleba said.
What US military experts lament is that Ukraine has split its forces evenly between the east and south of the country, rather than concentrating on the south, where the stated goal lies Shortening of Russian supply lines, disruption of the so-called “land bridge” between Russia and the Crimean Peninsula, occupied by the Kremlin since 2014.
The result of all this is that more Ukrainian troops are stationed near cities in the east, such as Bachmutinstead of being near Melitopol and Berdyansk in the south strategically more important fronts. Secretly, Ukraine seems to have been advised to concentrate its efforts on the front towards Melitopol and to break through the Russian defenses. even if it means more casualties and equipment losses. The warning insists that Ukrainians are widely dispersed and need to consolidate their military might in one place.
In response to criticism of Ukraine’s strategy, the Retired General David Petraeus, former director of the CIA, published an article in the Washington Post trying to reassure his country’s politicians by saying that this will be a “long war”: “Ukraine,” wrote Petraeus, “needs long-range precision weapons, like the US Army Tactical Missile System (Atacms); You need cluster munitions for your rockets and not just for your artillery shells; It takes more ammo to keep the offense going, and it needs those accelerated delivery of F-16. In fact, Ukraine needed these skills months ago.”
Dissatisfaction with events in Ukraine is growing US Presidential Electionscheduled for November 2024, in which Donald Trump is the favorite The Republicans are a party disinterested in Joe Biden’s $44,000 million aid to Ukraine. A recent CNN poll shows that 55% of Americans oppose sending more aid to Ukraine in the war with Russia. Among Republican voters Dissatisfaction with deliveries to Ukraine reached 71%.
