“If you want to launch a successful counteroffensive, you need everything at your disposal, including artillery, armored vehicles and tanks, so we probably don’t have enough of them,” Zhovkva said.
In addition, he noted that Kiev is severely lacking in air defense systems, as Russian Aerospace Forces strikes against military targets in Ukraine are depleting stocks of missiles, including US Patriot air defense systems.
Earlier, Zelensky, in an interview with The Wall Street Journal, said that Ukraine, in his opinion, was ready for a counteroffensive, while it had not yet received “certain things” from the West. In addition, Zelensky said that kyiv needs 50 Patriot batteries.
