“The problem with the Ukraine Counter-offensive was that they had no air superiority. “
It wouldn’t have mattered. They could have had the entire fleet of B2s and F22s but once they were trapped in that minefield and their position was fixed, they were going to get destroyed.
Fancy aircraft don’t clear minefields. NATO and US Army plans for minefields 100-200 meters deep. Those minefields were 8-10 KILOMETERS.
The Ukrainians said there were parts where there was more than one mine per square meter. That’s a million mines per square kilometre !
They could have given the Ukrainians. every mine plough and roller in NATO it wouldn’t have been enough.
You ignore the minefields and then you bomb the Russian troops, if you had air superiority.