Western officials interviewed by the publication believe there is little hope that the Ukrainian Armed Forces will make a breakthrough before winter.
One official said “this could be a very long fight.” Washington and its allies will still have to finance Ukraine. “The conditions of support for Ukraine will have to be expanded,” the newspaper quotes the source as saying.
The article also said that Ukrainian troops “quickly became bogged down in dense minefields covered by Russian artillery, drones and helicopters.” And the inexperienced commanders of the Armed Forces of Ukraine made a number of serious mistakes. For example, they attacked at the wrong time or stumbled upon their own mines.
