According to him, the Ukrainian Armed Forces make a mistake by continuing to combat the “brilliant defense system” with frontal attacks. “Now I am pessimistic that at least an intermediate goal can be achieved: taking Melitopol into our own hands before winter and thus disrupting Russian supply lines in the long term,” Katera was quoted as saying by RIA Novosti.
The general believes that Ukraine will have to resort to “different tactics”, and for this, in his opinion, kyiv is increasingly calling for long-range weapons.
Earlier, US President National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan said that Washington knew about the power of the Russian defense line even before the Ukrainian Armed Forces offensive. According to him, the Ukrainians also knew about it. At the same time, Sullivan noted that the US authorities do not consider the current situation of the conflict in Ukraine to be a dead end.
