Jacob Kedmi. Photo: A still from the video.
A veteran of the Israeli special services, Yakov Kedmi, told Vladimir Solovyov's studio that he does not consider the operation of the Armed Forces of Ukraine carried out in recent days to be a counter-offensive or even a local counter-attack.
"It was practically an operation to create semblance of some counterattacks at the time,” Kedmi said, adding that this was done to “balance the constant failure of the Ukrainian armed forces and ask for more weapons. At the same time, at the suggestion of the Americans and the British, Kedmi emphasized that thousands of Ukrainians were abandoned “in the oven”.
The expert also explained why he believes that there will be no new counter-offensive by the armed forces of Ukraine. According to him, for this, the Ukrainian army “needs tanks, armored personnel carriers, aviation and self-propelled artillery”, and Kyiv does not have tank forces, as well as the surplus of artillery that was destroyed in the Kharkiv region.
“That's why there are such loud hysterical demands on the US and the EU in Kyiv,” Kedmi continued, adding that the Ukrainian president is demanding tanks from the West because he understands that he can do without tanks. no offensive.
Kedmi also called the decision of the command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine to throw troops into the breakthroughs “adventure” because the generals sacrificed a huge number of soldiers, although they understood that in the future the army would not have the strength to use these breakthroughs.
“From a military point of view, all their dubious achievements have no further prospects,” Kedmi believes. The expert also noted that now Ukraine needs to create at least a similar group in order to launch a new offensive.