Sep 2, 2023
It is now clear that
Ukraine’s eagerly anticipated counteroffensive has been a colossal failure.[1]
After three months, the Ukrainian army has made little progress pushing back
the Russians. Indeed, it has yet to get beyond the so-called “grey zone,” the
heavily contested strip of land that lies in front of the first main line of
Russian defenses. The New York Times reports that “In the first two weeks of
the counteroffensive, as much as 20 percent of the weaponry Ukraine sent to the
battlefield was damaged or destroyed, according to U.S. and European officials.
