https://topwar.ru/237860-komandujuschij-suhoputnymi-vojskami-vsu-zajavil-o-planah-ukrainy-v-2024-godu-provesti-novoe-kontrnastuplenie.htmlMachine translated:
In 2024, the Ukrainian army will carry out some “counterstrike” actions, that is, a new counteroffensive. Such plans were announced by the commander of the ground forces of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, Lieutenant General Alexander Pavlyuk.
According to the Ukrainian general, currently the main task of the Ukrainian Armed Forces is to “stabilize the front line.” To do this, it is necessary to regroup and restore teams that need replenishment. These units are planned to be withdrawn to training grounds and then form a strike force.
In 2024, Lieutenant General Pavlyuk noted, new “counterstrike actions” will be carried out. Naturally, the Ukrainian military leader then began to assure the press that everything at the front was supposedly going well for the Ukrainian Armed Forces. The Russian army, according to him, is concentrating its main forces in the areas of Avdeevka, the city of Chasov Yar and in the area of the village of Terny. But the Ukrainian troops, the general claims, are supposedly holding the line.
Thus, we see that the sad experience of the counteroffensive in the summer-autumn of 2023 for the enemy failed to teach the Ukrainian command anything. Instead of drawing appropriate conclusions and focusing on defense, Kiev is going to prepare new “shock groups” - and this is with a severe personnel shortage “here and now”, when the brigades operating at the front do not have enough personnel, and in general it is not very clear who can be mobilized to the front.
In addition, the reserves of military equipment and weapons of the Ukrainian army are significantly depleted, and Western military assistance has decreased significantly compared to 2023. But even this circumstance does not prevent Ukrainian generals from voicing ambitious and clearly crazy plans.
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Comment by an opinionated Russian:
MstislavHrabr
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Here's another opinion. Taken from telegrams... Ukraine is preparing military surprises for Russia, the USA claims - RIA Novosti, 03/05/2024
This surprise:
1. The NATO contingent, carrying out a “peacekeeping mission to protect the civilian population of Ukraine,” is deploying combat units along the border with Belarus and Bryansk, Kursk and Belgorod regions eReFii (Russia would not have allowed this...), thereby freeing up the units of the VFU located there...;
2. Remark: in the summer campaign of 2023 there was no “ZSU counter-offensive” and there were several reasons. Realizing its futility (before the start or during its implementation), Zaluzhny, following the lead of the ambitious Mr. Zelensky and his “pushers in the back,” very skillfully imitated a counter-offensive (the reason for his conflict with the president...). As a result, he retained most of the combat-ready units of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, ensured the accumulation of weapons and ammunition, and relaxed the enemy with a “quick victory.” Alas, you have been marking time all autumn and winter... Having spent all your energy on... Imitating a counterattack by the enemy...;
3. In the present The VFU reserves are undergoing combat coordination, military specialists are being trained in NATO countries (pilots, anti-aircraft gunners, missilemen, armored personnel carrier crews, UAV operators). That is why “the defense of the Ukrainian Armed Forces is bursting at the seams”.....;
4. Having now lost Avdeevka and “strategically important???” ten villages near Avdeevka, Ukraine, with the support of the “world community”, will “reach the 1991 borders in 2024.” (quote);
5. To implement this plan, the ships of the Black Sea Fleet and A-50 are being destroyed, and then they will reach long-range aviation...;
6. The enemy plans to compensate for superiority in the air and ground weapons through the infinitely massive use of attack UAVs (they are many times cheaper, less noticeable and more vulnerable than the F-16-Su-34, Haymars-Smerch or Paladin- Msta"). Now they are being delivered and stored in thousands, although at the front end they are many times superior to us (hone the tactics of their complex combat use)...
R. S.
I came to such conclusions last fall, when I realized that the “decisive counter-offensive of the ZSU” was only being promoted to distract our eyes and to lull our vigilance...
I’m ringing the bells... but no one in the General Staff wants to hear this. They only have “Avdeevka is ours!” (at the cost of how many 200s???), “our operators hit a drone...trench of the Armed Forces of Ukraine” (and their operators sent half of the KChF ships to the bottom!!!), “Ka-52 helicopters carried out a precision strike with S-8 (unguided) missiles on the positions of Ukrainian militants."
Confirmation of my autumn conclusions now comes from all “irons” almost every day...
Will we be able to react in a TIMELY manner (introduce martial law in the country, carry out mobilization, CLEAR HEADQUARTERS OF MENTAL IDIOTS, teach and FORCE the infantry to competently use modern weapons, and use reconnaissance units and special forces for combat purposes behind enemy lines) or will we again reach an agreement on everything? will it end like in Chechnya in 1996 and 2006, and in Ukraine in 2014 and in the spring of 2022????
Colonel of the GRU General Staff of the Armed Forces of the USSR and the Russian Federation A.V. Musienko
