While a large-scale, successful counter-offensive on the part of Ukraine is not impossible, it is easier said than done due to some major caveats Opinion | EdamDefense
Moscow’s plan in Ukraine was centred on the flawed assumption that the circumstances that prevailed during thewere still in place. The war, in President Vladimir Putin’s eyes, would be short. Besides, countries of the Euro-Atlantic were already divided; the French president had even declared NATO ‘brain-dead’.
Moscow started the attack with a badly-calculated Intelligence Preparation of the Battlefield . This was displayed first in the airborne troops’ botched raid onto Hostomel Airport at the outset of the war, expecting little, if any, Ukrainian resistance. As the conflict progressed, the Russians had to learn from their intelligence mistakes in an even harder way. The Moskva missile cruiser, the flagship of Russia’s Black Sea fleet, was sunk by Ukraine’s Neptune anti-ship missiles.