Ukraine needs more time before launching counteroffensive: Zelenskyy
occupying forces and opening a new chapter in the war more than 14 months after the Kremlin’s full-scale invasion.
A claim by the Ukrainian military on Wednesday that it had advanced up to two kilometers around the hotly contested eastern city of Bakhmut brought speculation that the counteroffensive was already underway. Russia is “acting slow” in Ukraine because it wants to preserve infrastructure and save lives there, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov claimed in an interview with the Bosnian Serb channel ATV broadcast Wednesday night.
Ukraine’s Western allies have sent the country 65 billion euros in military aid to help thwart the Kremlin’s ambitions, and with no peace negotiations on the horizon the alliance is gearing up to send more.European Union Foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said the possible need to delay a counteroffensive was a sign that the West must step up its military support for Ukraine.“Certainly, they need more preparation,” Borrell said at a defense and security conference in Brussels.
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