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Ukraine Struggles to Scale Offensive Combat Operations

War on the Rocks

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Ukraine's Overcome the Advantages of Defending

In general, I don't think it's fair to say that Ukraine enjoys the kind of superiority that would be decisive overall. The last point I'd make on that is just because the Russians are defending the competent way. We knew going as offensive the Ukraine was not going to have some advantages that you'd want to have when you're attacking an entrenched defender. Once you have some surprise, you need to really maximize the initial surprise,. and Ukraine ran some issues early on that led to some problems.

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