Recently, publications about the "slow Ukrainian counteroffensive," "wrong direction of the attack," "dispersion of forces," "large losses of equipment," and much more have become more frequent - they are picked up by the Ukrainian media and replicated by the Russians with particular pleasure.
Oleksiy Danilov, Secretary of the National Security and Defence Council of Ukraine, says about this in an article on LB.ua.
"Such articles are published in reputable publications, signed by well-known journalists and experts, have wide circulation and quite obvious consequences that hardly contribute to strengthening the morale and national resilience of any country at war. Although, of course, an objective outsider's view is always important. However, on account of certain information trend, that may be preparing the ground and subtly pushing Ukrainians to compromise and negotiations, it seems necessary to arm ourselves with a number of important arguments that are preferred not to be written about and, moreover, not widely discussed in the West and in the world," Danilov said.
He reminded that Ukraine is forced to carry out a full-scale conventional war against a nuclear state, while holding the strategic initiative.
Danilov highlighted the peculiarities of Russia's war against Ukraine:
- No state and no president in the world before Russia's attack on Ukraine had faced a direct threat of destruction of an entire nation from a country with the world's first nuclear arsenal and which was the country that guaranteed its security.
- After 1945, the European continent had no experience of successfully managing and leading armed forces of hundreds of thousands of soldiers in a full-scale conventional war, as the Ukrainian Defence Forces do.
- The last time plans for defence, offensive and counteroffensive in a full-scale war on the European continent were developed by the general staffs of different countries in the 1930s and 1940s.
- Never in almost 80 years has a full-scale front line of thousands of kilometres crossed Europe.
- Experts analysing and commenting on the course of Ukrainian resistance to Russian aggression are forced to rely on old knowledge and lack updated theoretical background.
- The logistical challenges facing Ukraine are perhaps the largest since the end of World War II.
- Ukraine was the first country in the 21st century to create comprehensive operational systems for battle management and troop control in a revolutionary short period of time.
"When you look for “likes”, you can get carried away and lose the country. Information can be a medicine, but at the same time it can also turn into a poison," Danilov summarised.
Ukrainian Defence Minister Oleksiy Reznikov said that "the Ukrainian Armed Forces' counteroffensive is moving steadily and according to plan."