Counteroffensive? Probing defenses? A Look at the Fighting in Ukraine

Counteroffensive? Probing defenses? A Look at the Fighting in Ukraine https://ift.tt/dTKznY0 While Kyiv is silent about the start of any counteroffensive, fighting is raging in several sections of the front line, signaling that the long-expected campaign could finally be getting underway. Moscow claims it has successfully fended off a Ukrainian attempt to ram through Russia’s defenses, but some pro-Kremlin military bloggers painted a different picture, acknowledging that Kyiv’s troops made some quick gains. Many military experts expect Ukraine to try to ram through Russian defenses toward the Sea of Azov coast to break the land corridor to Crimea that Moscow created after capturing the kea port of Mariupol in May 2022.