At present, except for the Azov Steel Plant, which still refuses to surrender, the large-scale battle launched by the Russian army in Mariupol has ended. At the same time, the Russian army that had freed up was also turning its main forces into a new direction. For the current Ukraine, the situation is undoubtedly very critical, but this still does not dispel Ukrainian President Zelensky's idea of trying to launch a counterattack against the Russian army.
Comprehensive news shows that Zelensky recently claimed to the outside world that Ukraine would regain everything that was broken through and occupied by the Russians, but the premise for the Ukrainian army to launch a counterattack is that it must have enough weapons. Once equipped, Ukraine can immediately regain the occupied territory. Thousands of words are summed up in one sentence, that is, continue to seek military assistance from the West.
Previously, it was reported that as of March 25 local time, the Russian army had completed the main tasks of the first phase of the special military operation, greatly weakening Ukraine's war potential. After a period of adjustment, Russia announced that it had entered the second phase of the special military operation.
, Major General Rustam Minnekayev, acting commander of the Central Russian Military Region, said that the second phase of the Russian special military operation is to fully control Donbas and the southern Ukraine. Once this goal is achieved, it will pose a great threat to Ukraine.
This is because, on the one hand, Russia will consolidate its control over Luhansk-Donetsk. More importantly, Odessa, the southern port city of Ukraine, may rekindle the war. Once Odessa is out of control, Ukraine will also lose its estuary, thus completely becoming a landlocked country. This is undoubtedly a fatal blow to Ukraine that is "striking seven inches".
In fact, after adjusting the large-scale assault tactics in the early stages of the war, the Russian army has now adopted a more steady and steady tactic. Their advantages in air force, long-range precision strikes, firepower, etc. are also gradually being reflected. The gap between national strength and military strength is here. The aid of Western countries actually cannot play a decisive role at all, and it is difficult to change the current unfavorable situation of the Ukrainian army. The large-scale counterattack is even more whimsical.
At the same time, different voices have also appeared in Western countries for Ukraine's "little lion's big talk" aid requirements. German Chancellor Scholz recently said that Germany can no longer provide weapons to Ukraine from the Federal Defense Forces stockpile. A few days ago, the survey results of a German polling agency also showed that more than half of the Germans opposed supporting heavy equipment to Ukraine.
Even the United States, which openly supports Ukraine, has begun to doubt the flow of these equipment and funds to aid Ukraine. A source in the US intelligence community even bluntly stated that the aid to Zelensky was like entering the fog of war, and Ukraine is now like a huge black hole.
It is obvious that the West obviously has its own considerations for Zelensky's series of requirements. For the sake of its own interests, the latter hopes that the Russian-Ukraine war will be long-term and achieve the goal of continuing to bleed Russia. Therefore, it is foreseeable that Western countries will continue to provide the most basic assistance to the Zelensky government, but it is not enough to support Ukraine in launching a full-scale counter-offensive. In this way, the situation in Russia and Ukraine can be maintained at a controllable balance point, thus dragging Russia into the quagmire of war.
Zelensky may have forgotten that in the context of intensifying confrontation between Russia and the West, Ukraine is just the first chess piece to be pushed out. They are not chess players at all, and they do not have the ability to become chess players.
