The rolling out of two major nuclear carriers on Europe’s north-eastern flank during the worst military crisis in Europe since the 1948-49 Berlin blockade shows Putin will go as far as it takes to protect his country’s national interests.
That was the claim made by Ukrainian President Volodimir Zelensky earlier this week when he hosted Rep. Adam Smith, chair of the US House Armed Services Committee, and his colleagues in Kyiv.The aim of the offensive is to liberate Ukraine’s occupied territories in the Kherson and Zaporizhia regions and push the Russian forces back as far as Crimea, if not further.
Tactical successes in defending its second largest city Kharkiv were overrun by Russia’s counter actions within weeks, bringing the frontline back to the outskirts of the city.Firstly, the successful counter-offensive in the country’s south would force the Russians to halt its continuous assault on the Donbass and commit all available resources to defend Kherson, Mariupol and Crimea.
Should the counter-offensive fail, Ukraine risks losing the unconditional support of the US and Europe and might face a reduction in the military and financial support it desperately needs. Ironically, they proved to be more adaptive to extreme battlefield conditions and more resilient to intense fighting.In particular, chief of the National Security Service Ivan Bakanov and Prosecutor General Iryna Venediktova were relieved from their posts after hundreds of treason investigations were launched in the departments they managed.
In particular, he dismissed Major-General Hryhorii Halahan as the Commander of the Special Operations Forces, the most potent element of the Ukrainian military. The excuse given by the power company was technical maintenance issues and the impact of sanctions on the provision of support services by Western contractors.
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