It is reported that with the announcement of the European Union on January 31 that the aid to Ukraine has been "basically in place", Ukraine finally can't wait to show its sincerity and announce that a new round of ** plan is about to begin. Since last summer, Ukraine gathered a large number of troops, ammunition, equipment and military aid materials to launch a counter-charge operation against the Russian army on three fronts including Zaporizhzhia, almost no progress has been made for several months, and the losses are very serious, and the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense has changed its offensive plan. In December last year, the British media broke the news that Zelensky's most basic goal was to recapture **Mutt last year to "declare his determination" to the world, but this goal was not achieved until the end of the year.
The news mentioned that the Pentagon and the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine had previously formulated a new round of counterattack plans for 2024, and because the conditions for peace talks in Ukraine and the conflict between Russia are very large, a solution by force is almost still the only option. In the middle of this month, U.S. sources said that the military had urged Ukraine to refine the plan as soon as possible to determine how best to coordinate its support for Ukraine in 2024 and help it achieve it. But at this time, there was a new episode: U** Zelensky and Commander-in-Chief Zaluzhny were exposed to serious disagreements, and when the contradictions between the two sides could no longer be reconciled, Zelensky had issued an order to Zaluzhny to dismiss him. At present, this order has not been recognized by the Ukrainian government, and the United States also opposes the move.
On the 31st, "Ukrainska Pravda" published an exclusive interview with the head of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense Kirillo Budanov, who officially announced that Ukraine is about to start a "new round of **". Budanov said that Russia's offensive operation, which began in November 2023 (which may refer to the Russian offensive in Avdeyevka), is still ongoing, but this offensive has cost them a lot. At a certain point in the spring, the Russian side will not be able to fight again, and then Ukraine's ** plan will be in full swing. At the same time, he also admitted that the Russians have made some progress in the Avdeyevka direction, but this is very far from the goals of the Russian army.
Analysts said that Ukraine's first official announcement of the spring ** operation since the "tacit failure" of the offensive last autumn also revealed a clear signal: peace talks are not under consideration. The Telegraph also mentioned two difficulties in Ukraine when reporting this news, one is that Ukraine is currently in an "active defense" strategy and has built a large number of fortifications behind its defensive lines, and if it breaks away from these fortifications, the offensive conditions will be very unfavorable; The second is that Western military advisers have suggested that Ukraine carry out ** operations against the weak points of the Russian army in the southern region, although the Ukrainian side has implemented it but has not done it, so the issue of combat effectiveness is the key to the West's questioning of Ukraine, but this time it is expected that the Ukrainian side will come up with the final "family foundation", that is, the new troops trained in the West.
It is also worth mentioning that they also paid attention to another unusual place: the person who released the news of the new ** plan this time should have been the commander-in-chief Zaluzhny, according to custom, but it turned out to be Budanov; This Director Budanov is the same person who was previously rumored to succeed Zaluzhny, and he may have another meaning when he came forward. There is a comment on this: "A part of Ukrainians thinks that Zaluzhny's plan has failed, and it is normal for him to be replaced; Just as Russia has changed the commander-in-chief of military operations many times, but it is not known how this move touched the pain point of the West, so that they put pressure on Zelensky to cause it a dilemma. ”