An unknown senior U.S. official told the New York Times that Kiev shared its counterattack plan with the United States, prompting Washington to provide more aid to Ukraine.
Although it did not disclose how much information the two sides shared and how deeply the Americans were involved in Ukraine's counterattack plan, the official said the United States has been discussing the counterattack with Ukraine.
What is certain is that Ukraine's successful counterattack was successful, and the United States must have made a lot of efforts. Basically, except for not providing combat personnel on a large scale, everything else was arranged for Ukraine. Military advisers provided advice, and a large amount of equipment was sent to Ukraine, and various intelligence about the Russian army were also provided.
Although the United States did not directly send US troops to fight head-on with the Russian army, the support provided by the United States to Ukraine is no different from the direct outcome. For Russia, it is naturally hard to defeat four-handed hands with two fists, not to mention that the West supports Ukraine has more than "four-handed hands".
According to US officials, in the early stages of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, Ukraine was not willing to share its combat plans with the US because the Ukrainian army was too weak. If the Ukrainian army's weaknesses were exposed to the US, the United States might not have any interest in supporting Ukraine.
As the war continues, Ukraine's weaknesses are obvious to all over the world, but the United States' determination to drag down Russia has not been significantly weakened. This has made Ukraine feel at ease and dared to reveal the actual situation of its military strength to the United States. This makes the cooperation between the United States and Ukraine more in-depth, allowing the United States to take a series of targeted measures.
So we can see that as time goes by, Ukraine can occasionally cause certain damage to Russia, including this large-scale counterattack, which has indeed achieved success.
But this does not mean that Russia will definitely lose. Ukraine's counterattack was successful due to many reasons, including Russia's active concession, because Russia is very clear that Ukraine's counterattack was a lifelong decision. If it fails again, the West will completely give up the mistaken shot down. Therefore, Russia chose to follow the trend and carry out strategic contraction. While retreating on a large scale, it will attack as many of Ukraine's vital forces as possible.
This time, the number of Ukrainian troops invested in the counterattack was several times that of the Russian troops. In the direction of Kharkov , the Ukrainian troops reached eight times that of the Russian troops. Ukrainian side clearly wanted to fight to the death, and Russia did not need to force it. After this wave of offensive by the Ukrainian army, it is unlikely to organize such a large-scale counterattack before winter.
After the winter begins, Russia has a greater advantage. Whether it is to fight back or defend the land it has already controlled, it is not a problem.
What Ukraine really lacks is not equipment, but combat personnel. NATO has been aiding Ukraine, but in terms of personnel, it is to create some mercenaries . These mercenaries cooperated with the Ukrainian army, which was not enough to completely repel Russia. So no matter how they fought, the Ukrainian army won some local victories and had no ability to retreat to the place before the Russian-Ukrainian conflict.
For the United States, its goal is to fight to the last Ukrainian . The number of Ukrainian veterans is shrinking severely, and many of them are new recruits who have not been trained very much. The United States just wants to give them some confidence while there are still Ukrainians willing to go to the battlefield. If Ukraine fails this counterattack again, if Russia wants to consume it, it may not find many people to work hard for the United States.
Therefore, the United States did not show any excitement about the success of Ukraine's counterattack. The New York Times also pointed out that it is not yet possible to see how broad and strategic significance the achievements of Kiev have.
American experts also pointed out that in Ukraine and Russia, the West will be unable to do so in the end. Therefore, it is difficult to do anything about Russia if it continues to consume for a long time. The local victory Ukraine won can only prevent Ukraine from being completely abandoned by the West. In the long run, Ukraine will not completely reverse its failure because of the victory of this counterattack.
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