Ukraine’s long-anticipated counter-offensive is proving irresistible to the social media armchair warriors, despite Kyiv’s appeals for them to stop treating the war like a spectator sport. However, their enthusiastic discussion of alternative battle plans belies the degree to which, as a Ukrainian official admitted, “in some ways we all have much less freedom of manoeuvre” than might be assumed.
Publicly the Ukrainians are bullish. Oleksii Reznikov, the defence minister, promised last week that the big push was imminent. “As soon as there is God’s will, the weather and a decision by commanders, we will do it,” he said.
#Ukraine: A Russian 2S4 Tyulpan 240mm self-propelled mortar was destroyed by the Ukrainian 79th Air Assault Brigade and 55th Artillery Brigade in Marinka, #Donetsk Oblast. pic.twitter.com/UPR2sn8y5m
— 🇺🇦 Ukraine Weapons Tracker (@UAWeapons) April 24, 2023
