Much of the small city of Bakhmut in eastern Ukraine lies in ruins after months of trench warfare. TWTFrontPage
, but Ukrainian commanders say the planning for a renewed offensive to reclaim land in the Donbas has not been affected.
“It was necessary to buy time to accumulate reserves and start a counteroffensive, which is not far off,” the general told Ukrainian reporters in Kyiv on March 11.Despite a disastrous first year of fighting, Russian President Vladimir Putin appears to be betting that his smaller adversary cannot long sustain a war of attrition and that popular support in the U.S. and Europe will inevitably weaken if the fighting produces a stalemate.
“It’s easier to train someone to stand in a trench and defend and shoot someone coming at them, but it’s much more difficult to train them to do offensive operations,” Rob Lee, a senior fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute, recently“It takes a lot more courage and unit cohesion, [and] it takes better leadership and command and control,” he said.
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