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https://www.eurointegration.com.ua/news/2023/03/28/7158823/
US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin believes that due to the significant depletion of Russian forces and Western weapons, Ukraine has a “very good chance” of launching a successful counteroffensive in the spring of 2023.
As the correspondent of “European Truth” reports, he said this during the hearing of the US Senate Committee on Armed Forces on Tuesday.
Austin said that Ukraine currently has a “significant advantage” compared to Russian forces, although the front line has shifted one way or the other recently, and there is currently “pretty serious fighting in the Bakhmut area.”
“The Ukrainians inflicted significant losses on the Russians, and they depleted their reserves of armored vehicles in a way that no one could have ever imagined. And now we see how Russia is deconserving T-54 and T-55 tanks due to the level of losses that the Ukrainians inflicted,” he emphasized. head of the Pentagon.
He added that in view of this, Russia’s resources are running out, it is increasingly facing a shortage of artillery ammunition and other things and is forced to turn to Iran and North Korea for help.
“That’s why I think we’ll see an intensification of hostilities in the spring as the conditions for maneuver improve, and based on what we’ve already done and continue to do. I think Ukraine will have a very good chance of success,” Austin stressed.