Ukraine offensive will fail to reach Melitopol, U.S. intelligence says
Written by Black Hot Fire Network on August 18, 2023
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The U.S. intelligence community assesses that Ukraine’s counteroffensive will fail to reach the key southeastern city of Melitopol, people familiar with the classified forecast told The Washington Post, a finding that, should it prove correct, would mean Kyiv won’t fulfill its principal objective of severing Russia’s land bridge to Crimea in this year’s push.
