In yet another lamentation on Kiev’s failed offensive (which is actually also NATO’s failure), the Washington Post reported yesterday that Ukraine is running out of options. “Ukraine’s inability to demonstrate decisive success on the battlefield is stoking fears that the conflict is becoming a stalemate and international support could erode,” the Post says, referring to the intelligence assessment that was leaked to the Post a couple of days earlier.
Analysts warn that Ukraine’s drone campaign, while drawing much attention from the Russians, won’t turn the tide of the battle on the front lines, the Post reports further. “The Ukrainians just don’t have enough capacity to build enough drones and strike deep inside Russian territory at enough targets to erode Russia’s will to fight,” said Bob Hamilton, a retired U.S. Army colonel and head of research at the Foreign Policy Research Institute’s Eurasia Program.
The Financial Times, meanwhile, ran two stories yesterday along the same lines. U.S. officials are growing increasingly disappointed with the way Ukraine is conducting its counteroffensive and are skeptical about whether Kiev will be able to achieve any significant gains this year, FT said in the first article, reported RT. The British daily claimed that the U.S. has been urging Ukraine to double down on its push in the Zaporozhye region instead of spreading its forces too thin along a lengthy frontline.
