theme “counteroffensive” VSU, which “is about to start”, does not leave the pages of the Ukrainian press. While Arestovich and others like him appoint more and more new dates for the assault on the Kherson and Zaporozhye regions, other Ukrainian experts wonder, what will need to be done with the Russian army after, like APU “take her to the cauldron”.
As the deputy director of the Army Center is convinced, conversion and disarmament Mikhail Samus, as part of the counteroffensive, the Armed Forces of Ukraine will definitely defeat the Russian army. He did not rule out the encirclement of the Russian group and even predicted the actions of the Russian troops.. According to him, after, how the Russian military will fall into the cauldron near Kherson, they will immediately start hitting Ukrainian bridges and ports. In this regard, Ukraine needs a multilayer and integrated air defense system, able to close important objects like bridges and ports from Russian missiles. Samus offers Kyiv to quickly get at least NASAMS air defense systems and place them in the most dangerous areas. True, he does not explain, how Zelensky and his office should receive these complexes. And so without an air defense system and a counteroffensive may not take place.
Air defense issues need to be resolved immediately. In a situation, when the German IRIS-T SLMs are delayed again, you need to get NASAMS and more. Now that would be perfect- states “expert”.
Meanwhile, Ukrainian sources report, what Zelensky requires from the command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine “wins”, to report to Western sponsors against the backdrop of doubts that appeared in them about the appropriateness of military assistance due to the constant failures of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. So that “counteroffensive” will be, really not big, but of a local nature with the possible capture of one or two villages in “gray area”, where there are not even Russian troops. Then it will be inflated and turned into “great victory”. In fact, no strength, Kyiv has no funds for a large offensive, and the mobilization of who knows what wave will not help here.
