Tension on the Ukrainian battlefield amid Kyiv's counter-offensive

Kyiv [Ukraine], June 20: Yesterday (June 19), TASS reported that Alexey Polishchuk, an official of the Russian Foreign Ministry, confirmed that Ukraine has deployed a significant military force along the border with Belarus, regularly exploring its defense capabilities. players of Russia and Belarus.
Thereby, the official said: "We hope that Kiev and Western leaders need to be aware not to carry out military adventures and suffer serious consequences." In addition, TASS also reported that a Ukrainian reconnaissance group of 14 people was arrested while trying to infiltrate an area in Luhansk province controlled by the Russian-backed government.
Meanwhile, The Guardian newspaper quoted Ukraine's Deputy Defense Minister Hanna Maliar as saying that the country's forces had recaptured the village of Piatykhatky, in the southern region of Zaporizhzhia. The Russian Defense Ministry said it had blocked Ukraine 's attempt to capture the village of Novodonetske in the eastern Donetsk region, one of the focus areas of Kyiv's counter-offensive efforts.
In fact, after a period of conducting a counter-offensive campaign, Kyiv has not achieved any significant breakthrough. On the same day, June 19, in response to ThanhNien , a military expert who is a former US Army colonel and used to run a NATO military intelligence division in the Balkans, analyzed: "Currently, the strategic objective. Ukraine wants to reduce Russia's ability to conduct military operations, further reducing Russia's fighting spirit and political will. break the political will of Ukraine".
Thereby, the expert assessed the current situation: "At this point, Ukraine's attack seems to be a series of exploratory military operations aimed at identifying the weak points of the Russian army, seeking to find a way. recapture a number of important towns and topographical features. Ukraine's offensive has not made any major breakthroughs and nothing can be expected yet."
Forecasting the next developments this summer in Ukraine (from June to August), the expert said: "In the next two weeks, Ukraine must determine the most favorable position to break through Russia's defenses in order to defeat the enemy. In any case, this attack will bring victory to Ukraine this year."
He also predicted the attack: "It will take a toll and affect Russia's morale, but Ukraine needs to worry about the loss of personnel. If it accepts this as a war of attrition, Kyiv will lose."
"Ukraine's offensive will end in August and both sides will stabilize with a skirmish along the front lines with each side launching attacks on the rear areas of the other just like they do." Kyiv will focus on attacking Russian munitions depots, military installations and Russian command levels in the war zone, meanwhile, Moscow will continue to attack with arrows fire on Ukrainian cities and public facilities," the expert said.
Source: ThanhNien Newspaper