Russia’s 2025 offensives have failed: Ukraine chief
Ukraine’s military chief said that Russia’s spring and summer attacks could not achieve its goals and added that Russia fired twice as much artillery than Ukraine on the battlefield.
“It can be said that the spring and summer campaign of the Russians were effectively deteriorating,” Oleksandr Syrskyi said to journalists.
After the deployment of large -scale discovery and attack drones, Russia prevented the rapid progress of the species seen in 2022 and increases in several parts of the front.
Ukraine says that small advances come with a high human cost.
Both sides of the war rarely discussed the wounded, but some Western intelligence forecasts put more than a million of the number of those killed and injured in Ukraine.
Syrskyi said that the active façade line is now 1250km long and 712,000 Russian personnel were estimated to the struggle in Ukraine.
Syrskyi said that Russia plans to create a “buffer zone” in Sumy and Kharkiv regions in the north and northeast, and it failed to take the city of Pokrovsk and to capture the entire Donetsk region.
The capture of all Donetsk is the main purpose of the Russian war, which controls more than 70 percent of the region.
Syrskyi said that since the beginning of the summer, the Russians attacked with a tactic called “thousand cuts” – a large number of small infantry attacks.
“This consists of simultaneous use of a large number of small attack groups – in order to penetrate our land as much as possible, the land, valley and forest areas of the four to six soldiers advancing.”
Speaking about a Russian breakthrough near the Donetsk town Donetsk town Dropillia, Syrskyi said that Ukraine called the Kazenyi Torets River in what Ukraine called the “trap”.
The commander said that he had reached 85 military or military-industry facilities, including air bases, warehouses and factories on the Russian territory of Ukraine in the last two months.
This week, US President Donald Trump suddenly said that Kiev is not going to play the card that Ukraine has lost all the ground that Ukraine has lost so far – about 20 percent of the total area.
However, to achieve these goals, he did not offer significant new help to Ukraine and passed to European allies.
Russia said that it is progressing in Ukraine and that Kiev would be advised to negotiate earlier, not later later.
Ukraine rejected Russia’s negotiation conditions and said it would surrender.
