Ukraine is preparing a “powerful” counteroffensive, promoting Patriot systems

Ukraine is preparing a “powerful” counter-offensive on the battlefield and is pressuring the West to supply more anti-missile systems like Patriot in the face of Russian bombing of civilian infrastructure.

Russiameanwhile, continues its offensive in areas south and northeast of Bakhmut, in the Donetsk region, despite its little operational and strategic value.

“We are analyzing the intentions of the occupiers and are preparing a countermeasure, an even more powerful countermeasure” than the recent ones in the Kharkiv and Kherson regions, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky said, without disclosing details.

Ukraine it is currently fighting back in the Lugansk region, where it recaptured 13 cities, and is participating in the operation to liberate the Kinburn Peninsula, where Russian troops retreated after leaving the southern Nikolaev region and the northern third of Kherson.

Ready for a possible new explosion

On the Southern Front, the operational situation is quite stable, the press secretary of the Southern Command said. UkraineNatalya Gumenyuk, who, however, warned that the presence of the Russian Navy in the Black Sea implies continued aerial reconnaissance “in preparation for possible missile strikes.”

According to military experts, Russia to prepare the eighth massive attack against Ukraineso Kyiv is on high alert after the last November 23rd.

This was announced on Thursday by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. Russia bombard the energy infrastructure Ukraine because it allows Western countries to “pour deadly weapons Ukraine kill Russians.

Attacks damaged half of the power system Ukraine According to Zelensky, after the latest shelling, the situation in the capital and in the Kyiv, Vinitsa, Lviv, Odessa, Khmelnytsky and Cherkasy regions is still very difficult. According to him, about 6 million Ukrainians are still without electricity.

More anti-missile systems

Both the US and Europe, including Spain, have mobilized to help Ukraine to better protect themselves from Russian missiles.

Spanish Defense Minister Margarita Robles, who visited the southern city of Odessa today with Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksiy Reznikov, said the government is “absolutely aware” that air defense systems are a “priority” for Kiev right now. .

“We will do our best to provide appropriate systems based on our inventory, but delivery must be confidential and follow the appropriate protocols,” he added.

In the United States, in turn, the US Department of Defense on Wednesday signed a million-dollar contract with weapons manufacturer Raytheon to supply Ukraine with air defense systems.

Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Dmitry Kuleba, who launched a powerful campaign to supply Patriot anti-missile systems to Ukraine. Ukraineconfirmed that there was a “very meaningful” dialogue on this possibility.

The US has said it is open to sending Patriot anti-missile batteries to the US. Ukrainealthough he made it clear that at the moment he does not plan to do this, and Germany has stated that it wants to put the system in Poland, but not in Ukraine.

Warsaw is in favor of placing batteries to the west of Ukrainearguing that eastern Poland, where a rocket had recently landed, would be better defended from there.

Zelenskiy said last night that Germany’s positive decision “will undoubtedly be historic.”

Moscow captures another city south of Bakhmut

Bye, Russia continues to focus its main efforts on the offensive in areas south of Bakhmut, in the eastern region of Donetsk, where yesterday, according to the Russian Ministry of Defense, it took Andreevka and Pershe Travnya, and today also Kurdyumovka.

Denis Pushilin, acting leader of Donetsk, argued that the move would allow Russian forces to block supply lines for Ukrainian troops.

He explained that if Bakhmut and Dzerzhinsk fell to the southwest, the Russian army would be able to “go straight in the direction of Kramatorsk”, one of the strongholds of the Soviet army. Ukraine in the province.

The American Institute for the Study of War (ISW) today stressed that the offensive around Bakhmut, where the troops advanced only a few kilometers, is reminiscent of the efforts made by Russia take in June-July Severodonets and Lisichansk, to Lugansk.

This allowed Russian forces to reach the region’s border with Donetsk, but from an operational point of view, the benefit was “minor” because the front has remained largely in stalemate since then, he said.

Even if Russian troops capture the city, its capture “has little operational benefit” compared to the “expenses associated with six months of brutal, grueling attrition fighting,” ISW claims.

(As reported by EFE)

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