US business newspaper: “West and Kiev knew Ukraine was not ready for major counter-offensive when it started”

When Ukraine launched its long-awaited counter-offensive this spring, both the West and Kiev knew that Ukrainian forces had neither the weapons nor the training needed to drive out Russian forces. That writes the American business newspaper ‘The Wall Street Journal’. They would have hoped that the courage and ingenuity of the Ukrainians would make all the difference. But that has not turned out to be the case so far.

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