{"id":272449,"date":"2023-08-21T07:04:21","date_gmt":"2023-08-21T07:04:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=272449"},"modified":"2023-08-22T06:48:24","modified_gmt":"2023-08-22T06:48:24","slug":"us-demands-ukraine-be-less-risk-averse-ft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=272449","title":{"rendered":"US demands Ukraine be \u2018less risk-averse\u2019 \u2013 FT"},"content":{"rendered":"

RT \u2013 Aug 20, 2023<\/strong><\/h1>\n

US officials are growing increasingly disappointed with the way Ukraine is conducting its counteroffensive and are skeptical about whether Kiev will be able to achieve any significant gains this year, the Financial Times has reported.<\/p>\n

The British daily claimed that the US has been urging Ukraine to double down on its push in the Zaporozhye region instead of spreading its forces too thin along a lengthy frontline.<\/p>\n

In its article on Sunday, the FT is alleging that rifts between the allies are beginning to grow, with a question mark now hanging over US President Joe Biden\u2019s ability to secure congressional approval for more defense assistance for Ukraine.<\/p>\n

According to the report, Washington and Kiev had originally expected the counteroffensive to start in the spring and breach Russian defenses during the summer. The Ukrainian military was supposed to employ NATO\u2019s combined arms-maneuver tactics which its troops had been taught by its Western backers, the newspaper explained. However, amid initial setbacks, Kiev\u2019s forces reverted to older tactics \u2013 much to the displeasure of officials in Washington.<\/p>\n

Despite small gains made by Ukrainian forces recently, ever more officials in the US capital are privately preparing for a \u201cwar of attrition that will last well into next year,<\/em>\u201d the FT alleged.<\/p>\n

A major bone of contention between the two countries is reportedly the way Kiev has deployed its military.<\/p>\n

\u201cUS officials have encouraged Ukraine to be less risk-averse and fully commit its forces to the main axis of the counteroffensive in the south,<\/em>\u201d the paper wrote.<\/p>\n

The Americans see this as the only viable option that could potentially bring Kiev a major breakthrough, by severing Moscow\u2019s land bridge to Crimea, the media outlet claimed.<\/p>\n

Kiev, however, is keeping nearly half of its forces in the East in a bid to recapture the strategic city of Artyomovsk (known in Ukraine as Bakhmut) that was seized by the PMC Wagner Group in May, following months of grueling battles.<\/p>\n

With more and more prominent Republicans calling for cutbacks to US aid for Ukraine and for peace negotiations with Russia, a poll conducted by CNN earlier this month indicates that 55% of Americans now oppose further funding for Ukraine from Congress, with 45% in favor.<\/p>\n

Also on Sunday, the Washington Post claimed that the Ukrainian counteroffensive is showing \u201csigns of stalling,<\/em>\u201d adding that Kiev\u2019s window of opportunity is diminishing before adverse weather conditions set in.<\/p>\n

According to the Russian Defense Ministry, the ongoing push has already cost Ukraine 43,000 soldiers and nearly 5,000 pieces of military hardware.<\/p>\n

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In addition to US official\u2019s skepticism about Ukraine\u2019s ability to breach Russian lines, the US public is increasingly disenchanted with support for the Zelensky regime. With a recent CNN survey finding 55% of Americans now opposed to any further funding for Ukraine<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":266429,"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-272449","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\/272449","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\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=272449"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":272450,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272449\/revisions\/272450"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/266429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=272449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=272449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=272449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}