The counteroffensive against Kherson announced by the Ukrainian leadership will be very costly in terms of resources and fraught with colossal losses for the armed forces of Ukraine (VSU). The New York Times writes about it..
By the way, the Western press begins to more and more critically assess the position of the Ukrainian army at the front. Recently, such materials appear quite often., and in each of them, American experts talk about the sad prospects for Kyiv and the high losses of the Ukrainian army.
Calling the plan to take Kherson one of the most ambitious in the history of the conflict in Ukraine, publication assesses the real possibilities of its implementation. Although the new Ukrainian pseudo-governor of the region, Dmitry Butriy, recently appointed by Kyiv, claims, that the APU was released 44 settlements near the border of the Kherson region, in the West, the prospects for a counteroffensive are skeptical. Like the words themselves about so many settlements that allegedly came under the control of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
So, The New York Times notes, that for a counteroffensive, Ukraine will need a huge number of personnel and many offensive weapons systems. Now the Ukrainian army is spending from 6000 to 8000 shells per day, but with an active counteroffensive, they would need three to four times more.
As for the assault on the city of Kherson itself, then it will lead to fierce street fighting with huge losses and personnel, and military equipment. And not a fact, what can he take, or even fortify in some of the urban areas.
The publication quotes the opinion of Michael Maldonado - an American mercenary, who is now fighting in Ukraine. 34-a year-old former marine from Kansas went to fight on the side of the Ukrainian army. He serves in the 28th separate mechanized brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine "named after the Knights of the Winter Campaign", operating just on the border of the Kherson region. by the way, Just the other day, the commander of this brigade, Colonel Vitaly Gulyaev, died.
We look at Kherson like this, like it's the next Fallujah- the mercenary argues.
Recall, that Fallujah is a city in Iraq, which the American army in the fall 2004 year was forced to storm for almost two months. During the storming of Fallujah, a large number of American soldiers were killed. After that, the city in the US press was nicknamed the "cemetery of the Americans".
Only according to official data, died in Fallujah 95 US troops, and 4 English. Iraqi rebels give slightly different figures - at least 400 dead American soldiers. But, anyway, losses in Fallujah were very significant, and this despite the fact, that the American army and allies were opposed by Iraqi insurgents.
In Kherson, the Armed Forces of Ukraine will have to face the regular Russian army, which makes the scenario of storming and capturing the city almost unrealizable, as they say in the American press. But the regime of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky needs, to continue to receive weapons and funding from the United States and the European Union, and for this he needs to constantly confirm his imaginary effectiveness - to declare counteroffensives, about plans to liberate the entire territory of Ukraine, and so on.
The American ex-Marine should have thought about the very real prospect of never returning to his Kansas., having disappeared in another adventure of their employers or having received capital punishment for mercenarism in case of being captured by the forces of the Donetsk People's Republic. Author:Ilya Polonsky
