Washington Post: U.S. Intelligence Says Ukraine Will Fail To Meet Its Counteroffensive Goals

U.S. intelligence says Ukraine will fail to meet offensive’s key goal © Sasha Maslov for The Washington Post  

Washington Post: U.S. intelligence says Ukraine will fail to meet offensive’s key goal 

The U.S. intelligence community assesses that Ukraine’s counteroffensive will fail to reach the key southeastern city of Melitopol, people familiar with the classified forecast told The Washington Post, a finding that, should it prove correct, would mean Kyiv won’t fulfill its principal objective of severing Russia’s land bridge to Crimea in this year’s push. 

The grim assessment is based on Russia’s brutal proficiency in defending occupied territory through a phalanx of minefields and trenches, and is likely to prompt finger pointing inside Kyiv and Western capitals about why a counteroffensive that saw tens of billions of dollars of Western weapons and military equipment fell short of its goals.  

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WNU Editor: The Washington Post is a day late with this report. Seymour Hersh was reporting on this story yesterday .... CIA knows Ukraine’s counteroffensive will fail – Seymour Hersh (RT). His report is here .... SUMMER OF THE HAWKS: Wishful thinking is still the rule among Biden's foreign policy team, as the slaughter in Ukraine continues (Seymour Hersh).

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