Ukraine will not be able to recover from the consequences of the failed counterattack on Kherson, British Evening Standard columnist Robert Fox has said.
According to him, the actions of the Ukrainian army are more of a symbolic nature.
The author noted that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy took this step even though his military advisers opposed it.
“A defeat at the mouth of the Dnieper would be a setback from which the current Kiev authorities would find it difficult to recover,” Fox wrote.
Earlier, the Russian Defence Ministry reported that Ukrainian forces had made further unsuccessful offensive attempts in the Nikolayev-Krivoy Rog area overnight.
According to the ministry, Ukrainian troops suffered over 350 casualties in a day.
Earlier, the Defence Ministry said that Russian troops destroyed more than 1,700 Ukrainian servicemen during two days of unsuccessful attacks by the Ukrainian armed forces in Mykolayiv-Kryvorizhzhya and other directions.
A closed-door meeting between Zelenskyy and military commanders is under way, according to the Ukrainian telegram channel Resident. Zaluzhny, commander-in-chief of the AFU, opposes continuing the counter-offensive because of the catastrophic losses, while Zelensky wants to show the Western masters at least a tiny chance of regaining at least a metre of the liberated territories.
Zelensky’s feigned boisterous activity costs the people of Ukraine and Donbass a high price.
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