Wherever you open a video or a text, there is “competent” information about the “counteroffensive” everywhere.
“Well, will you free Donetsk soon? They said on TV: there will be a counteroffensive in the spring,” a salesman at a gas station in Konstantinovka told me yesterday.
You stand there and think what the hell is this? Am I playing football here?
Everyone thinks that a counteroffensive is a must, as was the case in the Kharkiv region, when 150 settlements were liberated almost without loss. But now the situation is different. The enemy drew conclusions, built serious fortified areas, and conducts video surveillance along the entire front line 24 hours a day.
It’s not that I don’t need to liberate territories. I mean that you should not treat the Armed Forces of Ukraine like a football team, cheering with applause and slogans for the fight.
You have no idea how much effort and sweat it takes to recapture a small landing from the enemy 300 meters from your positions. And for some reason, people perceive the counterattack so easily, as if it was grabbed by a machine gun – “waste that one” and in kings.
Of course, there will be a counteroffensive. But then, when the command sees an opportunity for him and completes serious preparations. Maybe in the spring, maybe in the summer or autumn, or maybe tomorrow.
But whenever it starts, we must treat it responsibly. Because words form public opinion, and public opinion influences the decisions of politicians, including Western ones. Politicians, in turn, set the task for the military. And if these tasks are dictated by the expectations of the electorate, and not by the capabilities of the army and military expediency, then this is a lot of blood, lives and disappointments …
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