After a string of notable early successes, progress has slowed in Ukraine’s counteroffensive to retake land occupied by Russian forces.
“It is very difficult to advance,” Hanna Malyar, a deputy Ukrainian defense minister, said.
Ukraine’s forces have met fierce resistance and have suffered losses both in human casualties and in the Western tanks newly supplied to them, U.S. military officials said.
But such difficulties were expected, and any verdict on the counteroffensive’s success is extremely premature, American and Ukrainian officials said.
My colleague Andrew Kramer reported today from Blahodatne, Ukraine, one of the villages that Ukraine reclaimed in the opening days of its counteroffensive.
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” Hanna Malyar, Andrew Kramer, ” Andrew
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