Is Ukraine’s Counteroffensive Coming Soon?
Here’s what it might look like.
For months, there has been speculation over Ukraine’s spring counteroffensive. Now, as the weather gets warmer, observers are wondering: What is Kyiv waiting for? The reporting and essays below explore this question and more, delving into the reasons for the holdup, the innerworkings of Ukrainian military training and decision-making, and what the highly anticipated offensive might look like.—Chloe Hadavas
For months, there has been speculation over Ukraine’s spring counteroffensive. Now, as the weather gets warmer, observers are wondering: What is Kyiv waiting for? The reporting and essays below explore this question and more, delving into the reasons for the holdup, the innerworkings of Ukrainian military training and decision-making, and what the highly anticipated offensive might look like.—Chloe Hadavas
Weapons and other military hardware delivered by the U.S. military at Boryspil Airport near Kyiv on Jan. 25, 2022. Sean Gallup/Getty Images
Ukraine’s Spring Offensive Is Waiting on Weapons
Every day Kyiv waits, the Russians dig deeper trenches, FP’s Jack Detsch reports.
American soldiers wade toward the shore as they land in German-occupied Normandy, France, on June 6, 1944. Circa Images/GHI/Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty Images
Ukraine’s Longest Day
The first 24 hours of the expected counteroffensive will likely be decisive, Franz-Stefan Gady writes.
A worker adjusts lights above a tourist map of Ukraine at the Ukraine stand of the ITB International Travel Trade Fair in Berlin March 4, 2014. JOHN MACDOUGALL/AFP via Getty Images
Crimea Has Become a Frankenstein’s Monster
The Ukrainian government is now trapped by its own uncompromising—and increasingly indefensible—policy, Anatol Lieven writes.
Ukrainian soldier Taksist (a nickname) with the 114th Territorial Defense Brigade trains at a remote site outside Kyiv on Feb. 26. The instructor (standing center left) is U.S. Army veteran John Roberts from Newport Beach, California, who has been teaching through the International Legion of Defense of Ukraine since May 2022. Paula Bronstein photos for Foreign Policy
How Ukraine Learned to Fight
Russia’s full-scale war started a year ago. Ukraine’s military started slashing its Soviet roots long before, FP’s Jack Detsch writes.
A German Leopard tank at a training ground in Munster, Germany, on Feb. 20.Morris MacMatzen/Getty Images)
Ukraine’s Leopard Tank Crews Are Trained and Ready to Fight
Advanced tanks will be critical to any summer offensive, FP’s Elisabeth Braw writes.
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