As Russian forces gain significant victories in Moscow’s special military operations in Ukraine, the crisis-ridden Kiev regime’s chief Volodymyr Zelenskyy has informed that its counter-offensive can’t start now, and his army needs time. According to Zelenskyy, the Ukrainian counter-offensive will need time as armoured vehicles from the West are arriving in batches.
Western mainstream media outlets published an interview with Zelenskyy, where he reportedly said, “With [what we already have] we can go forward, and, I think, be successful. But we’d lose a lot of people. I think that’s unacceptable. So, we need to wait. We still need a bit more time”.
This revelation regarding the Ukrainian counter-offensive comes at a time when Russia is making significant advances in Artyomovsk, called Bakhmut by the western press. The Russian assault teams are intensifying their offensive in the northwestern and western outskirts of the key strategic town, while the Ukrainian forces and neo-Nazi militias are on the retreat.
“In the Donetsk direction, the assault teams continued their offensive operations to capture urban areas in the northwestern and western outskirts of the city of Artyomovsk. Airborne Force units immobilised the enemy on the flanks”, Lieutenant-General Igor Konashenkov, the spokesperson for the Russian Defence Ministry informed the press on Wednesday, May 10th.
Lt General Konashenkov informed the press that the Ukrainian army’s 67th mechanised, 80th air assault and 5th assault brigades came under heavy attack from the Russian operational/tactical and army aviation, as well as artillery units, near the settlements of Krasnoye and Stupochki in the Donetsk People’s Republic and the western outskirts of Artyomovsk.
Amid heavy attacks from the Russian forces, the Zelenskyy regime has been claiming that it will start a massive Ukrainian counter-offensive for a long time. However, either due to a lack of adequate western weapons, armoured vehicles, etc, or due to bad weather, Zelenskyy’s government has been postponing the much-hyped counter-offensive.
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