![]() ![]() It’s going to be bloody,” Mark Milley, the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, said. “I think there’s a lot of fighting left to go and I’ll stay with what we said before: This is going to be long. However, the US’s top general said on Tuesday that Ukraine’s counter-offensive was “far from a failure”, but that the fight ahead would be long and bloody. “Our advance is really not going as fast as we would like,” he said. ‘Advance not going as fast as we would like’Ĭol-Gen Alexander Syrsky, the overall commander of Ukraine’s ground forces, told the BBC’s Today programme on Tuesday that Russian strongholds were holding back his forces’ advances. Most of these gains have been around Bakhmut and a handful of villages in the southern Zaporizhzhia region. Instead, they started talking about slow but steady progress against well dug-in Russian defences and have now begun to describe how the counter-offensive has stalled with only an area half the size of Rutland recaptured. Their optimism at the start of their counter-offensive six weeks ago and promises of cutting off Russian forces with a lightning strike towards the Sea of Azov have faded. There has been a shift in the language used by Ukrainian commanders over the past few weeks. ![]() Russian military bloggers, often well-plugged in and well-followed, were less exuberant and said that Russian forces had failed to cross the Oskol River near Kupyansk but that they had recaptured the village of Novoselovskoye. Russian news agencies claimed, without providing any evidence, that Russian forces had advanced up to one mile towards Kupyansk. “As soon as we seize the operational initiative and start moving forward, the enemy immediately activates in other directions to distract and drag in our forces,” she said. Hanna Malyar, Ukraine’s deputy defence minister, said that the Kupyansk attack may be a diversionary tactic used to lift pressure on sectors of the battlefield where Ukraine has been taking ground. ![]()
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