"Success will": Budanov evaluated the prospects of the Armed Forces counter -offensive

The head of the GUR compared the Ukrainian offensive operation with a multi -month attempt to capture Bakhmut in Donetsk region. The counter -offensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine will be successful, but the results can be evaluated later. The head of the General Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defense Cyril Budanov agency in an interview with Reuters was howled this. Ukrainian troops perform the tasks. There are already promotion in certain areas of the front.

"There is a counter -offensive. In general, let's say so, it will continue. It will be success, but later," - Budanov spread. He compared the Ukrainian operation with a multi -agreed attempt to capture Bakhmut. Russian invaders attacked the city in Donetsk for over ten months. "Our task is a little more than Bakhmut, but we have a little less than 10 months of time," the GUR head explained. The Armed Forces advanced under Bakhmut and seized Russian positions in the Zaporozhye region.

According to analysts at the Institute of War (ISW), Ukrainian troops continue counter -offensive operations in the south and north of Bakhmut and successfully push Russian invaders. In the front sector, which extends from Svatov to Kremlin, the defense forces successfully conducted counterattack. The Commander -in -Chief of the Armed Forces Valery Zaluzhny told the head of the Joint Committee of US Headquarters General Mark Millie that the Ukrainian military continues to take offensive actions.

It is Ukraine's defense forces that have an initiative on the front. With the US military, he also discussed the current needs of the Armed Forces in service and ammunition to continue the liberation of the Ukrainian territory from the Russian invaders. We will remind, on July 7, the analysts of The Economist expressed the idea that the war in Ukraine will determine the course of hostilities for decades.