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Why the Ukrainian counter-offensive can still succeed with Frederick W. Kagan of the AEI’s Critical Threats Project

Ukraine: The Latest

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Ukraine's Counter-Offensive: How to Define Victory

I think the West underestimated what the Ukrainians would have needed in terms of equipment training and time to be able to conduct a mass-mechanized penetration. This counter-offensive was an attempt by the Ukrainians to do something different from what they've done before. And that approach relies very heavily on relatively protracted period of interdicting the supply lines. So I hope and expect that at some point relatively soon when they've hollowed out the Russian defenses, we will see more significant Ukrainian breakthroughs.

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