russia s dominance and because of waning american help, the path ahead looks increasingly unclear whereas this time last year, you had that initial overwhelming full scale invasion where kyiv ultimately held and where ukraine undertook a number of successful counter offensives, setting that president that it can indeed take russia by surprise. what always amazes me is how much is what has changed in such a short space of time. you had eight years of aggression and pockets of fighting, they had a full scale invasion. it is still a total war but you are seeing four to five positions on the russian side notably. you are seeing static fighting, fighting that is no less intense but all the while, you are in ukraine saying that several things need to happen at once that deadlock to be broken. the soldiers who are doing the fighting are
Ukrainian social media channels were alight with celebratory messages as the nation revelled in the first major successes of the much-anticipated counter offensives.
Ukraine has readied 12 brigades, an estimated 60,000 troops, to spearhead a multi-pronged counter offensive it hopes will show the West it can force the Russian invaders out of the occupied territories.
Ukraine s counter offensives are expected imminently, with Russia s Armed Forces making extensive fortifications to the land corridor between the Crimean peninsula to the west and their soldiers fighting in Donbas to the east.
After an anticipated Russian spring offensive failed to materialise, pro-war military bloggers have said the occupying soldiers are shifting towards . [countering] Ukraine s potential to regain significant ground .