NY Times article on Ukraine's offensive (no paywall)
A pretty good article from The Times for a change. Most important point: Ukraine has not yet committed most of its forces.
"The multipronged assault, concentrated along the front in the south and the east, is a test run of Ukraine’s new arsenal of Western tanks and armored vehicles as well as tens of thousands of newly mobilized soldiers who trained in Europe for months in preparation for the fighting. Kyiv, which as expected in the early stages is suffering casualties, will need to show significant progress in its counteroffensive to keep the money and weapons flowing from the West.
The flurry of initial attacks, staged under a cloak of secrecy by the Ukrainian Army, are intended to probe for weak points and lure Russia into revealing its defensive strategies too soon, before the bulk of Ukraine’s new force is put into the fight. Out in the expanse of farmland, the two armies are maneuvering and hiding their hundreds of tanks, armored vehicles and howitzers in tiny villages and thickets of trees, lest the other side guess where their forces are concentrated.
Once in full motion, Ukraine’s counteroffensive is expected to be one of the largest military operations in Europe since World War II.". (excerpt)
With Probes of Russian Lines, Ukraine’s Counteroffensive Takes Shape https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/10/world/europe/ukraine-counteroffensive.html?unlocked_article_code=cwLc93UrvAJw4JYQCQqoZbs6DcnmJjkCzXOfXe-o4PIL9FY6S5gKiEOARwwkVWxNBhnd48RLcOGI8nw-ZZOnef_tckxY-IokuaMKEsNvierW6ZZLgyTvS61vBtEtqVHMP-IACel0dEx52UEHSpHJQjFZN-Yi68qgqJi1wp55GHV-mf3L8BBzFWbHFkY4NNw3EMwPEkpeZTIDjjQPgE9B44zt8yLW9Mgf74yzl0r1WZ2mQkGAYKb3KYyhDPnG8FneCD4nnVMhQ3uBkT0AChYDOujfHtgnTS0qTwTo_TAkmLoRuZu1CDtlob3QA9BYoJAwYu3OcZHtM8BllqHyTl_HVcv6ql5fNPQ&smid=nytcore-android-share
