{"id":258221,"date":"2022-09-04T07:42:10","date_gmt":"2022-09-04T07:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=258221"},"modified":"2022-09-05T06:43:16","modified_gmt":"2022-09-05T06:43:16","slug":"the-ukrainian-counteroffensive-was-destined-to-fail-today-it-did-so","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=258221","title":{"rendered":"The Ukrainian ‘Counteroffensive’ Was Destined To Fail – Today It Did So"},"content":{"rendered":"

Moon of Alabama \u2013 Sept 3, 2022<\/strong><\/h1>\n

On August 24 the British prime minister Boris Johnson visited Kiev<\/a>:<\/p>\n

In comments made next to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky at the Mariyinsky Palace, Johnson said Ukraine \u201ccan and will win this war.\u201d<\/p>\n

Johnson’s visit was the start signal for the long announced Ukrainian ‘counteroffensive’ towards Kherson.<\/p>\n

In early April Johnson had called on and visited Kiev to stop well developed peace negotiations<\/a> between Russia and Ukraine:<\/p>\n

\u201cRussian and Ukrainian negotiators appeared to have tentatively agreed on the outlines of a negotiated interim settlement,\u201d wrote Fiona Hill and Angela Stent. \u201cRussia would withdraw to its position on February 23, when it controlled part of the Donbas region and all of Crimea, and in exchange, Ukraine would promise not to seek NATO membership and instead receive security guarantees from a number of countries.\u201d<\/p>\n

The news highlights the impact of former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson\u2019s efforts to stop negotiations, as journalist Branko Marcetic noted on Twitter. The decision to scuttle the deal coincided with Johnson\u2019s April visit to Kyiv, during which he reportedly urged Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to break off talks with Russia for two key reasons: Putin cannot be negotiated with, and the West isn\u2019t ready for the war to end.<\/p>\n

Over the last months Britain has trained several thousands of Ukrainian troops and their officers. Together with Ukrainian special forces Britain’s MI-6 secret service planned a special operation for Ukraine to regain control over the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant on the south side of the Kakhovka Dnieper reservoir. This was designed to coincide with a visit of IAEA inspectors, long held up by Ukraine, to visit the ZNPP.<\/p>\n

The Kherson offensive started on August 30 on five axes. It was destined to fail<\/a>. Three of these attempts to gain ground held by Russian troops failed. One axis was stopped after taking a few small villages of no strategic value. The only ‘successful’ attack was across the Inhulet river near Andriivka in the direction of the dam and river crossing that closes off the Kakhovka Dnieper reservoir.<\/p>\n

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Cont. reading: The Ukrainian ‘Counteroffensive’ Was Destined To Fail – Today It Did So<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Moon of Alabama on how, together with Ukrainian Special Forces, Britain’s MI-6 planned a special operation for Ukraine to seize the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant while IAEA inspectors were visiting it. That plan has now very obviously failed<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":145,"featured_media":256025,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[91,116],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-258221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-russia","category-ukraine"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/145"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=258221"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":258223,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258221\/revisions\/258223"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/256025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=258221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=258221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=258221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}