In the first phase of the Russian-Ukrainian war, the Russian army used a large number of elite main forces to attack the northern and northeastern regions of Ukraine, including the capital of Ukraine's largest city, Kiev and the second largest city, Kharkov . However, the Russian troops assembled locally not only failed to achieve any major results, but suffered heavy losses, especially the Russian tanks and armored vehicles were beaten to pieces under the attack of a large number of Ukrainian anti-tank forces.
However, the Russian army unexpectedly made significant progress in the south. They successively won , Kelsson and Melitopol, especially the Russian army quickly controlled the entire territory of Kelsson Prefecture, and they threatened to hold a so-called referendum in the local area.
Since the Ukrainian army completely lost control of Khlsong Prefecture, Ukrainian senior officials have been threatening to launch a so-called large-scale counterattack on the local area. News of Khlsong's counterattack began to spread in April, when the Russian army was still surrounding Mariupol . Now that the Russian army has even defeated Lisichangsk, Ukraine has postponed its counterattack against Khlsson to September.
The latest report from the Ukrainian State News Agency was that Helan, an official in the Khlsong region of Ukraine, said in an interview with the media that due to the improvement of the front-line combat situation, the Khlsong region will definitely be liberated by the Ukrainian army by September, and all plans of the Russian occupation forces will collapse by then. So the question is, what is the current situation of the battle situation on the front line of Kherson? Does the Ukrainian army have this ability?
The Ukrainian army's counterattack in the local area still has certain effects. You should know that in March this year, the Russian army once advanced to the city of Nikolayev, and later the Ukrainian army counterattacked and then contracted significantly. Now the control line between the two sides is very close to Khlsong. Later, the Russian army deployed at Khlsong's airport was attacked by the Ukrainian army many times, and a large number of helicopters were lost. In addition, the Russian army's rule in Khlsun was not very stable, and infrastructure was often damaged and local officials supported by Russia were assassinated.
At present, the worst situation of the Russian army on the entire front is indeed Khlsson, and since the sinking of the cruiser Moscow, they have lost control of the western part of Black Sea to a certain extent. But then again, although the Ukrainian army claimed to have been counterattacked for a long time in the local area, the front line still did not change much. Compared with the Russian army's siege in the Donbas area, we can hardly find obvious changes in the Khlsson area on the map.
The Ukrainian army's counterattack against the local area has been going on for quite a long time, and it has indeed taken down some settlements that were once under Russian control. But every time they encounter a big problem, because the available troops and firepower are seriously insufficient, so they cannot consolidate and expand the results in time.
Ukrainian army does not have the ability to use huge armored clusters to coordinate attacks. Moreover, there is no huge amount of maneuver firepower for accompanying support. Each time they counterattack, they will be defeated after a breakthrough. If they attack a little further, they will be surrounded by the Russian flanks and covered with heavy firepower, and they will get nothing in the end.
If the Ukrainian army wants to achieve a large-scale breakthrough locally, at least one or two elite brigade-level combat teams need to open the road as vanguards, and then cooperate with multiple brigade-level combat teams to follow up. In addition, they also need at least an armored force composed of a large number of main battle tanks and infantry fighting vehicles to break through the front line and then attack in depth. They also need relatively powerful self-propelled artillery troops to provide accompanying firepower, otherwise they will not be able to counterattack the Russian artillery's strikes. Not to mention that the Russian army still firmly grasps the air supremacy locally. The Ukrainian army also needs powerful field battles with air defense system to protect the sky above its head.
However, the current fact is that the Ukrainian army does not have any of these conditions. If they draw the elite troops in the direction of Donbas to Khlsson, they will be dead. Faced with the news of the so-called large-scale counterattack of the Ukrainian army, Russia launched a large-scale attack in Donbas during this period, which is the best response from the Russian army.
