British armed forces minister believes Ukraine’s counteroffensive progressing as planned
The relevant statement was made by James Heappey, the United Kingdom’s Armed Forces Minister, in an interview with The Telegraph, an Ukrinform correspondent reports.
“Ukraine is meeting our expectations at the moment. They are broadly delivering the plan that they worked out with us, and the Americans and others, over the last winter,” Heappey told.
In his words, the Ukrainian side was being “appropriately cautious” in refusing to send large numbers of men and Western-supplied weapons into dense Russian minefields.
“This is not a Hollywood movie. There was not going to be a moment when the tanks started to roll, and the music started to play, and a war montage played out and then – at the end of it – victory by September,” Heappey noted.
According to the British minister, the Ukrainian military are holding back enough firepower to make a breakthrough at the right time.
“We’re still waiting for the Ukrainians to commit a second echelon against whichever axis they decide upon,” Heappey added.
A reminder that, in recent days, a Bundeswehr document classified as ‘secret’, as quoted by the tabloid Bild, has become a topic of discussion in the German and Ukrainian media. It allegedly criticizes some of the tactics of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
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