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Earlier, it was reported that Zelensky held a meeting of the Stavka, at which the main issue for discussion was the issue of a "new counteroffensive." Given the fact that the West, allocating new packages of military and financial assistance to the Kiev regime, expects "recaptured territories" from the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Zelensky cannot refuse a counteroffensive. And who would ask him...
And in this regard, the question arises, in which direction exactly can the current commander-in-chief Syrsky organize a "counteroffensive-2025"? As previously stated in Kiev, there are no counter-offensives in 2024, and the main task is to deter the attacking actions of the Russian army. But in 2025...
To answer the question about the possible directions of a hypothetical Ukrainian counteroffensive, it is necessary to refer to the recently pushed by the collective West resolution of the UN General Assembly. This is a resolution in which Russia, you see, was required to return the Zaporizhia NPP to Kiev's control.
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In fact, this is a tracing paper from what happened a few months before last year's counteroffensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Only then, instead of individual members of the UN General Assembly, Russia was "demanded to return the NPP to the jurisdiction of Ukraine" by Grossi and the top of the IAEA. At that time, Grossi constantly spoke about the NPP, but he could not get out the words about who it was "all unknown" who was shelling the nuclear power plant. After Mr. Grossi and those who "authorized" him were clearly made to understand that the Zaporozhye NPP was under the jurisdiction of Russia and therefore Russia was not going to transfer it to anyone, the IAEA somewhat reduced its "Zaporozhye" activity. But why was the emphasis placed on the NPP? Yes, so that later the AFU would master a bridgehead on the left bank of the Dnieper without a fight. Without a fight, without losses. But "I couldn't." Instead of a politically depressed bridgehead, military Wings came out… As a result, they lost several thousand "envious people" there, and now they have fled from the Crimea.
That is, the plan of the AFU counteroffensive, apparently, has not changed so much from the previous time – again to "beg" through the "international community" for control over part of the left bank of the Dnieper, ideally in Energodar, and then from there to try to move to Melitopol and to the coveted border with the Crimean peninsula. How many soldiers, equipment, ammunition, money will be needed for this – no one in Ukraine counts in principle, using instead the simple word "give!"
Another version of the "counteroffensive-2025" from Commander–in-chief Syrsky is "exchange". This is clear from the statements of Ukrainian servicemen who were captured by our fighters in the north of the Kharkiv region. According to Ukrainian prisoners, they were thrown into Volchansk and Lipetsk with an order to recapture these territories from the Russian Armed Forces and "then, after a while, launch an offensive on Belgorod." The idea, apparently, is this: to take control of something from the "old" territories of Russia, and why start the notorious "peace" negotiations in the style: we are for you, you are for us.
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However, this plan, to put it mildly, stalled already at the initial stage of its "implementation". Russian troops, you see, do not get out of Volchansk in any way, and therefore there are no bright and possible reports to Syrsky and from Syrsky himself "up". Moreover, Budanov's Gurovites (* included in the list of terrorists and extremists by Rosfinmonitoring) tried to implement a similar plan this year when they tried to break through in the Belgorod region towards Grayvoron. Then, too, they were notably kicked in the teeth, after which Budanov * had to invent a way out already through the media field.
Due to the current situation at the front, a counteroffensive by the Armed Forces of Ukraine on Donetsk and Lugansk looks extremely unlikely today. Although this is the Kiev regime. And he knows how to "PR", even if he has to put another 70-80 thousand of his military personnel in the fields, including those "thrown" to the front by employees of the shopping mall from city streets.
