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| Offensive Going Better Than Expected, U.S. Says |
| 2023-06-08 |
| [The Drive] There are indications from the Biden administration that Ukraine is making progress already during its counteroffensive. Administration officials "were encouraged by better-than-expected progress Monday, as Ukrainian units pushed through heavily mined areas to advance between five and 10 kilometers in some areas of the long front," Washington Post columnist David Ignatius reported Tuesday. "That raised hopes that Ukrainian forces can keep thrusting toward Mariupol, Melitopol and other Russian-held places along the coast." Biden administration officials say the offensive began on Monday with a Ukrainian thrust south along multiple axes, Ignatius reported, echoing what we reported Monday. The White House, however, said it is too early to tell how the destruction of the Nova Kakhovka dam across the Dnipro River will affect the counteroffensive. "I won't speak to Ukrainian military operations in any way whatsoever," White House National Security Council spokesman John Kirby told reporters Tuesday afternoon. "But right now- too soon to assess what kind of impact [the dam destruction] is going to have on the battlefield." Ukrainian officials have remained quiet about the offensive in an attempt to maintain the element of surprise, a difficult task in a world of social media open source reporting and against an enemy with satellites as well as a network of spies on the ground. "PLANS LOVE SILENCE," Ukrainian Deputy Defense Minister Hanna Maliar said Tuesday on her Telegram channel. "The offensive will not start in social networks." She did, however, say that Ukraine has made additional progress around Bakhmut and expects to elsewhere as well. |
| Posted by:Enver Slager8035 |
| #3 I get all my news from Soros. Did you know Taiwan is planning to invade mainland China soon? |
| Posted by: jpal 2023-06-08 16:38 |
| #2 Soros says he expects Ukraine to win. So, what would you expect his employees in the US to say? |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2023-06-08 15:43 |
| #1 Which is to say, at all. |
| Posted by: ed in texas 2023-06-08 15:30 |