{"id":75109,"date":"2022-09-15T15:22:14","date_gmt":"2022-09-15T05:22:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspistrategist.ru\/?p=75109"},"modified":"2022-09-15T16:12:47","modified_gmt":"2022-09-15T06:12:47","slug":"ambassador-says-ukraine-needs-more-aid-to-press-home-advances-against-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aspistrategist.ru\/ambassador-says-ukraine-needs-more-aid-to-press-home-advances-against-russia\/","title":{"rendered":"Ambassador says Ukraine needs more aid to press home advances against Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Behind Ukraine\u2019s euphoria about the success of its counteroffensive against Vladimir Putin\u2019s troops is a lingering alarm about what Moscow might do next.<\/p>\n

\u2018Fear is always there, but Russia likes to be feared,\u2019 Ukraine\u2019s ambassador to Australia, Vasyl Myroshnychenko, tells The Strategist<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Ukraine and the nations that have come to its aid must make Russia fearful in turn, the ambassador says. A world that is united and which won\u2019t be intimidated by Russia delivers a message in a language Moscow understands, he says. \u2018If Russia smells fear among the allies, that will be bad for them and bad for democracy. Putin can be stopped if the world unites against him.\u2019<\/p>\n

A week into Ukraine\u2019s counteroffensive, the ambassador says the ultimate goal is to recapture Crimea and the other territory occupied by Russia in 2014. \u2018We have to drive the Russians from the entire country.\u2019<\/p>\n

Ukraine\u2019s commander-in-chief, General Valery Zaluzhny, said on Sunday that in a major counteroffensive, his forces had liberated more than more than 3,000 square kilometres of Russian-occupied territory in less than a week. The Ukrainian forces punched through thinly guarded Russian lines east of Kharkiv, severing lines of logistics and forcing the withdrawal of major Russian units from many areas, but most importantly the key transport hubs of Izium and Kupiansk.<\/p>\n

In a classic disinformation operation that the Russians should have been awake to if their reconnaissance and surveillance was effective, the Ukrainians talked openly of a coming offensive to recapture Kherson in the south of the country. Russia withdrew troops from the areas it held in the north to reinforce Kherson, but Ukraine attacked in the northeast.<\/p>\n

The Russians appear to have been caught by surprise and found themselves cut off from supplies.<\/p>\n

After a week of fighting, many Russian troops withdrew from the Kharkiv region in haste and often in complete disarray. Some reportedly pulled right back onto Russian Federation territory and others negotiated surrender terms with Ukrainian forces. Media reports said individual soldiers threw off uniforms and body armour and changed into civilian clothes to escape the advancing Ukrainians. They also abandoned large numbers of tanks and other vehicles.<\/p>\n

Ukraine\u2019s defence minister, Oleksii Reznikov, tweeted a video of an Australian-designed and -built Bushmaster troop carrier that brought soldiers from the 80th Air Assault Brigade to the Oskil River during the offensive. To protect freedom, the vehicle had travelled half the world, Reznikov said.<\/p>\n

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For the sake of protecting Freedom, it traveled half the world, from the \ud83c\udde6\ud83c\uddfa to the \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\udde6. 19,300 km across the Indian Ocean.
\nSept2022.Thanks to “Bushmaster” #UAarmy<\/a> came to the Oskil river & continue to liberate Kharkiv region.
\nThank you to @RichardMarlesMP<\/a> @AmbVasyl<\/a> & all \ud83c\udde6\ud83c\uddfa people pic.twitter.com\/UnI0cSbAUu<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Oleksii Reznikov (@oleksiireznikov) September 11, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n