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Editor -in -Chief Censor.NET Yuriy Butusov, commenting on the New York Times, dedicated to the achievements and failures of three years of military cooperation with the US and Ukraine in an interview with Radio NV, said Ukraine tried to take off the offensive in 2023 for political reasons of the Presidential Office.
“The question was, and did these attraction at all have to do at all, everyone on their front area? Was it not just fear that if they do not come somewhere, then some of them will be removed from office? And this is a problem that arises after this gender: was it necessary to step at all? Was these forces that were focused on unarmed, not yet trained new brigades that were just receiving Western equipment from the echelons, to throw on the offensive? Or, perhaps it would be better to strengthen the defense, not set such broad goals and objectives? ” Said Butusov on Radio NV.
According to the journalist, from the article NYT follows that Zaluzhny and Syrsky performed “Some information and political tasks of Zelensky “, carrying out large offensive operations” without calculating forces and means “.
The military analyst named the main mistakes that Ukraine made in three years of war
“I think it was a political history – both in Syrsky and in Zaluzhny – which they did on insistence, not from some certain logic, but simply at the request of the Presidential Office. Because anyone knows the situation at the front then – it was extremely difficult. In May, we finally lost Bakhmut, no reserves for defense were directed to Bakhmut. We prepared two shock groups for the offensive and did not intensify the defense when it was necessary, ”Butusov said.
He also noted that Ukraine did not intensify the defense of Avdiivka, although “It was obvious ”that the Russians would step there.
“Instead, we accumulated forces, accumulated, accumulated, and then went with such a political task – to gain a great victory. In fact, there was no strength for this great victory, ”the journalist said.
The Azov Brigade Combat called the counter -offensive of Ukraine in 2023 “talentless”
On March 29, The New York Times published a spreading material with elements of investigation dedicated to the achievements and failures of three years of military cooperation with the US and Ukraine.
The article states, in particular, that during the preparation of a counter-offensive in 2023, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky did not support the plan of the United States and then commander-in-chief Valery Zaluzhny with active actions in the Zaporozhye region and sided with his subordinate, Colonel-General Alexander Sirsky, who had the idea. Because of this, the ammunition and the forces that Ukraine had, were divided.
In the published December 1, 2023, the interview with the Associated Press, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy stated that Ukraine failed to achieve rapid results during the Armed Forces counter -offensive. He also stressed that Ukraine did not receive all the necessary weapons from the Allies, and restrictions in the amount of its military force prevented rapid advancement.