Ukraine's Crucial Counteroffensive Against Russia: What It Needs to Succeed.

Ukraine is preparing for a new counteroffensive against Russia, which is expected to be larger and more complicated than any other effort Ukraine has conducted since the launch of the Russian invasion in February 2022. Ukraine's forces are newly equipped, newly armed, and newly reconstituted, with as many as 12 newly formed brigades, three-quarters of which have been working with NATO and U.S. trainers in a complicated tactic known as combined arms maneuvers. However, Russia still has numerical superiority and escalation dominance on the battlefield, and has been digging in and expanding its defensive lines across the front. The offensive is important to show the Western allies that the Ukrainian forces are operational and capable of pushing back the Russians from Ukrainian oblasts and to change the military situation.