War Reports - 2023-11-14
The Wall Street Journal:
Ukraine’s 47th Mechanized Brigade was equipped with Western armored vehicles and trained for a lightning summer counteroffensive that was supposed to tip the war firmly in Kyiv’s favor.
These days, after advancing only a few miles over several months in the south, the brigade is fighting to fend off a Russian attack on a small industrial city in eastern Ukraine.
-The brigade’s shift from offense to defense reflects a move to a new phase in the conflict as Ukraine’s top commanders acknowledge that the counteroffensive didn’t achieve the desired progress. Ukraine’s top military officer, Gen. Valeriy Zaluzhniy, described the war as a stalemate in an interview with The Economist, saying there would most likely be no significant breakthrough.
-“There is no silver bullet that will change the stalemate in the short run,” said Douglas Lute, a retired U.S. Army lieutenant general and former ambassador to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. “Our incremental approach to …
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