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Zelensky reduces expectations of the Ukrainian counterattack: “It will not be a silver bullet”



Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said his army needs more time to prepare for a strong counterattack against Russian forces, according to an interview published by the BBC on Thursday. “With (what we have) we can go forward and succeed. But we will lose a lot of people. I think this is unacceptable. So we have to wait. We still need more time,” Zelensky said in the interview. The Ukrainian army is training a new unit of troops and stockpiling Ammunition and equipment provided by Western countries that analysts say will be key to retaking territory occupied by Russia Standard Related News No AFP journalist dies in Ukraine during missile attack Juan Pedro Quinonero The correspondent, the agency’s video coordinator in the country at war, was He is 32. The Luhansk regions (east), as well as Kherson and Zaporizhia (south) are still an open matter. “The preparations are coming to an end,” Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksiy Reznikov announced at the end of April. “The equipment has been pledged and partially delivered. Vis Wide we are ready.” “When God wants (when there is) good weather and by the decision of the leaders, we will do it,” he added. But he added that the powerful Abrams tanks promised by the US “will not have time to take part in this counterattack” as they are due to be delivered to Ukraine by the end of 2023. On Wednesday, a senior Ukrainian military official said that Kiev forces had carried out counterattacks in Bakhmut. , the center of the fighting in eastern Ukraine, and forced the Russian forces to withdraw.

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