delays in the provision of western volley, air defense systems and tanks to Ukraine limited Kyiv’s ability to conduct a larger counter -offset against the backdrop of the Russian military failures, according to the next summary of the situation in Ukraine of the American Institute for Studying War (ISW).
discussions about the alleged difficulties or the inability to return to Ukraine a significant part of the territory captured by Russia in 2022 do not sufficiently take into account how the Western delays in the provision of the necessary military equipment aggravated these problems. Slow provision and arrival of assistance are not the only factors limiting the ability of Ukraine to begin a large -scale offensive. This was also facilitated by the features of the adoption of political decisions in Ukraine – while there were no impeccable adoption of military decisions in any war, ISW notes.
according to experts, Russian troops owned the initiative and conducted an offensive from February 24 to July 3, 2022, after which their attacks reached the climax. Ukrainians intercepted the initiative and began a large -scale counter -cost in August, freeing the western part of the Kherson region on November 11. Since then, Ukraine has not been able to start a new major counterattack, which allowed the conflict to develop into a positional war and provided the Russians with the opportunity to return the initiative and increase the bar for future Ukrainian counterattacks.