Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Saturday that Ukraine’s counteroffensive can’t begin until the US and other Western countries send more weapons and ammunition.
When asked about a potential counteroffensive in an interview with the Japanese newspaper Yomiuri Shimbun, Zelensky said Ukraine can’t “start yet” and can’t “send our brave soldiers to the front line without tanks, artillery and long-range rockets.”
“We are waiting for the receipt of ammunition from our partner countries. If there is political will, ways can be found to help us. We are at war and cannot wait,” he added. He said the military situation in eastern Ukraine is “not very good” due to the lack of ammo.
Ukrainian and Russian forces are still battling for the eastern Donbas city of Bakhmut, where both sides are using an enormous amount of ammunition. Zelensky said the Russian troops are using three times as much ammunition as the Ukrainian side.
Zelensky’s comments echo what a senior Ukrainian government official told The Washington Post on the condition of anonymity earlier this month. The official told the Post that Kyiv doesn’t have the “people or weapons” to pull off a counteroffensive.
Ukrainian soldiers fighting on the front have told several media outlets that they’re being sent into what has become known as the “meat grinder” in Bakhmut with little support and ammunition. New conscripts are also being sent into battle with barely any training.
The US and its allies have pledged a lot of new military aid for Ukraine over the past few months, but Zelensky keeps saying it’s not enough. The Biden administration wants Ukraine to launch a counteroffensive to make territorial gains this spring, but the prospect now seems unlikely.
Probably the practical reality. Both sides are exhausted neither can mount an offensive.
What counteroffensive? Stop killing people for no good reason. Start the peace talks already!
Yes, stop the madness. Putin needs to pull his troops out.
Repeatedly saying Putin should pull his troops out isn’t going to make him magically do that. And given the west’s unwillingness to provide enough weaponry to Ukraine for them to prevail will only mean more Ukrainian deaths and more destruction of Ukraine’s territory.
But repeating what you are will magically stop the West from providing weapons to Ukraine? I see.
How easy could’ve been for you to say, yes, I agree with that… but instead, and as usual, you counter me.
Once again, dare you to criticize or ask Russia to stop the madness and the killing of many young Russia men for the thug’s personal war.
Russian military men, as opposed to the murder of thousands of eastern Russian-speaking Ukrainian civilians when Kiev was “killing his own people”, because they wanted a democratic form of government instead of an installed dictatorship.
Do you think you are wise enough to be not be countered?
Are you f*cking serious? I’m repeating what the west has been repeating. They won’t send weapons that will put them in a direct war with Russia. So no, you don’t see.
I countered you because Russia isn’t leaving. And since I say that your simpleton mind takes that as being pro-Russia. You can’t discuss anything with anybody who bases their opinions on reality. I want the pre-invasion borders and I want Russia’s security concerns addressed. It’s that f*cking simple.
NATO/USA needs to pull out of Ukraine first.
“Zelensky Says No Counteroffensive Until the West Sends More Weapons He says the military situation in eastern Ukraine is ‘not very good'”
Instead of a counteroffensive how about considering a cease fire before every last young and older Ukrainian is dead.
What??? And give up on Ukraine’s thriving democracy?
Do that and hang from a tree. U.S. has him in a vise, Azov folks has him in a vise. Checkmate.
The counter offensive will occur within 2 weeks. The “not enough ammo talk” just a ruse to lull the enemy.
Bingo, but Russia may once again fall for that deception trick.
The only ones deceived are the Americans who actually believe the lies and deceptions through omission in the MSM.
Washington’s Economically Submissive Territories aka The West would do well to raise the not so slight matter of The US act of war against Europe by blowing up the Northstream pipeline which constitutes a deliberate act of terror.
Biden committed treason by ordering the destruction of the pipeline.
The majority of Europe’s politicians are not only gutless they’re also willfully ignorant as to what really happened.
U.S. Act of War against the European Union: President Biden Ordered the Terror Attack against Nord Stream. High Treason against the People of Europe [GR]
Translation:
We still have not moved those lines back to Russia, little alone any significant movement in Ukraine itself after months of trying.
Add that to the West sharing they can’t keep up with the amount of munitions being used ….not to move the lines for months now.
Time to talk and take the money to “rebuild” Ukraine ( otherwise known as bribes and new vacation homes in that part of the world).
According to Col. Douglas Macgregor, these Ukrainian offensives are detected by Russian satellites and get annihilated by Russian artillery as soon as they start to move. His estimates of total Ukrainian soldiers killed range from 150,000 to 250,000! The Ukrainians simply don’t have any more manpower.
Then the USA must ‘man up’ to stop the Russian Bear from taking over the world!!!! /s
According to Col. Douglas Macgregor, these Ukrainian offensives are detected by Russian satellites and get annihilated by Russian artillery as soon as they start to move. His estimates of total Ukrainian soldiers killed range from 150,000 to 250,000! The Ukrainians simply don’t have any more manpower.
I don’t know what Zelensky is worried about. He doesn’t have a TV? The Russians can only hit maternity hospitals, their country is just a gas station, and their generals are only good at dying. It should be a “cake walk” to Moscow. (Sarcasm alert)
Right, he’s exposing the abject prostitution of the western press.
It would be foolish to take anything Zelensky says at face value. But some of the military experts who comment on this war have been saying that Ukraine doesn’t have the ammunition to wage war for another 6 months, and that NATO can’t produce it fast enough to make a difference. If correct, these arguments imply that Ukraine will be forced to negotiate for peace by mid-summer.
Will Biden admit defeat? Or will he make one last hurrah by raiding our own stockpiles to give Zelensky what he wants?
At some point when Ukraine wants to negotiate, Russia might tell them to take a hike.
The US and its allies have pledged a lot of new military aid for Ukraine over the past few months, but Zelensky keeps saying it’s not enough.
And that isn’t going to change. How many times does the west have to say it doesn’t want a direct war with Russia. If the US/NATO was capable of supplying enough weaponry for Ukraine to prevail, we’d probably have WW3. And that “probably” is enough for the US/NATO since they are only trying to weaken Russia. Ukrainian lives are irrelevant to them Vllod.
“And that ‘probably’ is enough for the US/NATO since they are only trying to weaken Russia. Ukrainian lives are irrelevant to them”
At same time…in a buncha’ ways, IF “weakening” is the goal (I think this was and remains about the US neoconservative foreign policy of NATO expansion)…
…then the US has closed off exit ramps for itself :
It has been suggested that – at some point of negotiation in a war where decisive victory appears not possible – the US will define “victory” by exaggerating what was at stake – ‘Russia was stopped from taking over the world, and we killed so many of its citizens, they won’t try it again.’
I agree…But…then there’s still the q. of what was actually at stake for Russia – a US-armed to the teeth rabid nationalist country on its border, killing and crushing the rights of the pro-Russian Donbas, slated to join NATO:
can’t see Russia demilitarizing the war and accepting a settlement that allows either NATO in Ukraine or Ukraine in NATO at any future point. ie – even after absorbing the Donbas…it’s still gonna reject a settlement that leaves NATO on its border…and right wing nationalists shelling the Donbas.
Short of future NATO membership guarantees, the US – and, at this point, Ukraine – will want a Ukraine bristling with NATO weapons, more than before…versus, I guess, a ‘European’ solution that looked more like…dunno…limiting weapons and keeping such weapons as there are far away from each other’s borders…perhaps supported by permanent UN peacekeeping forces?
TRYNA’ picture a way out here…
The direct war with Russia is coming, everyone should know that by now that keeps up with the lies, deceptions by omission and whoppers spewed out by the MSM. “You can’t fool all the people all the time,” but when will the people finally get a clue? before it’s too late? Probably.
What he needs is infantry which he dosen`t have and never will have enough of , NATO talks a good war when they have the advantage of air power , the chances of NATO taking on Russia in a direct war are NIL the same goes for China simply because NATO s air power advantage is little or none existant , i have read many books by vets of Afghanistan ,Iraq ect both infantry and commanders , and it is quite clear without air support the Taliban would have pushed NATO out of Afghanistan within the first 5 years , even the Gurkhas would call in air strikes when the Taliban got the better of them.
We in the US should say loud and clear,
“Not one penny more,
For Biden’s cruel proxy war.”
That is what the peace movement, left and right, called for in the large DC demonstration on Feb. 19.
RUSSIA IS NOT OUR ENEMY.
“At least they should be armed while being slaughtered for no legitimate reason.”
Meaning Pulling back and let Russia Capture more territory…!
CALLING ALL MERCENARIES, CALLING ALL MERCENARIES!
That’s OK with Wash. and the war industry, more profits and campaign funds. What would they both do without Mr. Z??
Wash. is a dictatorship by committee, and there’s nothing anyone outside the gov. can do to stop the advance of WWIII. It’s all about money, Marx was right about that one, wasn’t he? Republics corrupt easily because they are always a symbiosis of power/money; gov./business who exchange what the other needs for more power and money. The power is so concentrated in Wash. that there’s no hope of any change in foreign policy, except in degrees of killing and destruction. Praying for peace is about all that can be done, and after today’s headlines of the Xtian school shooting, I have grave doubts about peace prayers being answered. The world is going mad, and all a person can do is protect themselves and their interests. If that means owning a firearm, so be it. Even the girls are doing mass murder now. Maybe it’s about the devaluation of human life that started in Wash.? Any other ideas?
Just never seems to be enough, does it. The TV actor is going to bleed his “partners” dry, and uncle Joe is so far out of it, he’ll let his errand boy do it..
Why can’t the Ukraine go on the offensive? Just last week it was being reported that the only thing the Russians had left were ‘poorly trained conscripts armed with shovels’. I dare you, Ukraine- I double dare you- to roll out against those ‘conscripts armed with shovels’ and see what happens.