Ukraine New Counter Offensive Rundown 2023

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Last year in 2022 Ukraine launched a major successful counter offensive that retook thousands of kilometers of land in the Kharkiv and Kherson region. Now In 2023 analysts are suspecting yet another offensive may be on the horizon for Ukrainian forces once western tanks and equipment have been delivered.
Thousands of new Ukrainian army recruits are training in newly created units that are specifically tailored for offensive operations; their forces have grown from 260,000 at the start of the war to a million today.

Written by: Chris Cappy & George Burden
Edited by: Maksym Dimarov

According to the new york times, Ukraines military command has been holding back their most elite soldiers and saving them from the worst of the fighting in Bakhmut so they could throw them into this offensive campaign instead as a kind of ace in the hole. Ukraine is now combat tested and battle hardened after a year of sharpening their skills. But recently leaked us intelligence reports paint a difficult picture of the challenges ahead.
According to western estimates approximately 100,000 Ukrainian soldiers have been killed or wounded. The CSIS estimates Russian soldiers have suffered 250,000 casualties since the start of the war.

One of the ways Russia is trying to mitigate these 101 newbie problems is by releasing official cartoon training videos that show troops the correct way to build trenches and defensive positions. It’s an odd cartoon style that reminds me of the old WW2 training videos mixed with the fallout 3 video game aesthetic. Wait a second I'm pretty sure deadpool would be on the Ukrainian side.

On the other side, Reuters reported how 40,000 new Ukrainian soldiers were specially trained as part of a storm assault unit with each new trooper taking four months to train from civilian to grunt. This is because offensive operations are exponentially more difficult than defensive warfare. It’s easier to teach a cat to go on a walk than it is to teach thousands of soldiers how to coordinate, communicate and maneuver under fire. There are 8 new storm brigades that will be used in the coming offensive, each of which have benefited from an extensive social media and recruitment campaign in Ukraine that has taken place since February that focused on the idea of getting revenge against Russia. Personally if you ask me that's a better recruitment angle than Russia’s advertisement which calls their own citizens out for not being men for working as security guards.

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