Toronto Television / Телебачення ТоронтоSlow... fast... Ukraine's General Staff had months to develop a plan and are following through on it. My sense is, they are going slow to probe and avoid taking casualties. Long term, they are shaping the battlefield so Russia is at risk of running out of everything except the AFU coming at them. Time will tell.
@tvtoront⚡Ben Hodges exclusively for Ukrainian Toronto Television: “There's a big difference between saying the [counter-offensive] is not going as fast as we'd like and it's not going as fast as we planned. I think that the 🇺🇦 General Staff has been so professional from the very beginning. They are not wasting the lives of their soldiers. They are being, I think, correctly cautious, trying to develop the situation. They're learning. And, at some point, they're going to find 2 or 3 cracks that can then be exploited”.
These posts are the pro-Ukranian version of Ritter/MacGregor stuff posted by the Soviets around here. All of it is clearly garbage and needs to stop being posted - but apparently many just want to live in an imaginary bubble.
“Ukraine’s General Staff had months to develop a plan and are following through on it.”
You are absolutely correct. Your concluding summation is supported by a variety of varied credible sources: economically, militarily, politically .