The general leading Ukraine’s counteroffensive along the southern front line says his forces have broken through in Verbove – and predicts an even bigger breakthrough to come.
No, but I don’t think that was ever the plan. The counteroffensive can succeed in a few different ways - cutting off supply lines to the occupied areas in the south, attriting Russian forces enough to force another unpopular round of conscription, or a major breakthrough like the Kharkiv offensive - but none of them are war-ending by themselves. It’s possible that Russia has a sudden change of heart and withdraws if it suffers some particularly tough kind of loss or Putin dies, but it seems very unlikely to me.
Sending Ukraine things like more modern jets and tanks has only started this year, which is clearly an intention to continue supporting Ukraine for a while. Nobody’s sending someone a fighter jet if they think it’ll no longer be needed in a month or two, after all
No, but I don’t think that was ever the plan. The counteroffensive can succeed in a few different ways - cutting off supply lines to the occupied areas in the south, attriting Russian forces enough to force another unpopular round of conscription, or a major breakthrough like the Kharkiv offensive - but none of them are war-ending by themselves. It’s possible that Russia has a sudden change of heart and withdraws if it suffers some particularly tough kind of loss or Putin dies, but it seems very unlikely to me.
Sending Ukraine things like more modern jets and tanks has only started this year, which is clearly an intention to continue supporting Ukraine for a while. Nobody’s sending someone a fighter jet if they think it’ll no longer be needed in a month or two, after all