Ukraine reports small gains in early stages of long-awaited counteroffensive
numerical superiority in men, ammunition and air power, and the many months it has had to build defensive fortifications.
Ukraine is banking on the tens of billions of dollars’ worth of weaponry, training and intelligence it has received from the West, combined with its own battlefield resolve, tactical nous and the motivation of driving an invader from its own land, to give it the edge. It is almost certainly far too early to draw conclusions about the fate of the counteroffensive from early skirmishes that may be more about testing Russian defences than pursuing a major advance.Canada supports NATO membership ‘as soon as conditions allow’, Trudeau tells Ukraine Parliament
“The offensive has clearly started, but not I think the main attack,” he wrote in an article for the Washington-based Center for European Policy Analysis.
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