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  • U.S. doubts Ukraine offensive will yield big gains, leaked document says

    04/10/2023 3:53:09 PM PDT · by marcusmaximus · 30 replies
    Washington Post MSN ^ | 4/10/2023 | Alex Horton, John Hudson, Isabelle Khurshudyan, Samuel Oakford
    Ukraine’s challenges in massing troops, ammunition and equipment could cause its military to fall “well short” of Kyiv’s original goals for an anticipated counteroffensive aimed at retaking Russian-occupied areas this spring, according to U.S. intelligence assessments contained in a growing leak of classified documents revealing Washington’s misgivings about the state of the war. -snip- The document forecasting only modest success in Ukraine’s forthcoming counteroffensive indicates that Kyiv’s strategy revolves around reclaiming contested areas in the east while pushing south in a bid to sever Russia’s land bridge to Crimea, the peninsula Moscow illegally annexed in 2014 and now uses as...