NYT: 2023 southern counteroffensive was undermined by Syrskyi's desire to take back Bakhmut

NYT: 2023 southern counteroffensive was undermined by Syrskyi's desire to take back Bakhmut

Ukraine's southern counteroffensive on Melitopol in 2023 was sidelined by a push to retake Bakhmut, the New York Times reported on March 29.Melitopol, a strategically-located city in Ukraine’s southern Zaporizhzhia Oblast, has been under Russian occupation since the full-scale invasion began in 2022. The Ukrainian military saw its capture as a decisive move — one that could disrupt Russian supply lines and sever the land corridor sustaining Mosc…

In 2023, the Defense Forces should concentrate the main counteroffensive forces in the direction of Melitopol in the Zaporizhzhya region, as proposed by the former head of the Armed Forces Valery Zaluzhny. However, the then commander of the Land Forces Alexander Syrsky insisted on the return of Bakhmut...

Mediafax Melitopol, a strategic city in the Zaporozhye region, has been under Russian occupation since Russia's invasion of Ukraine began in 2022. The Ukrainian military saw in its capture a decisive move, one that could have cut off Russian supply lines and ruptured the land corridor that supports Russia's hold over Crimea, according to a wide-ranging New York Times investigation into U.S.-Ukraine strategic planning during the war. General Olek…

Syrsky was unhappy that he was given a minor role in the counteroffensive