Ukrainian Armed Forces may launch new counteroffensive in 2025: Spy chief reveals condition

Chief of the Defense Intelligence of Ukraine Kyrylo Budanov (Vitalii Nosach, RBC-Ukraine).

The Ukrainian armed forces will be able to launch a new counteroffensive in 2025. However, there is a condition, according to Kyrylo Budanov, head of the Defense Intelligence of Ukraine.

He says that if Ukraine can conduct a competent defense, weakening Russian forces while rebuilding its own, it will be able to launch a new counteroffensive against a weakened enemy in 2025.

A recent study by the Royal United Services Institute, a London-based think tank, said that Russian forces are likely to peak by the end of the year and will face increasing shortages of ammunition and armored vehicles in 2025.

There is another factor: will there be additional support from the United States, which is being blocked by Republicans in Congress, and will they be ready to provide us with supplies for the entire year while we prepare?

Ukrainian Armed Forces counteroffensive

In the summer of 2023, the Ukrainian military launched a counteroffensive in southern and eastern Ukraine. The Ukrainian Armed Forces managed to liberate more than a dozen settlements in Zaporizhzhia and Donetsk regions. However, the main goal of advancing to the Sea of Azov was not achieved.

Currently, the Ukrainian military is mostly on the defensive and attacking whenever possible.

Earlier, the German agency Welt stated that the former commander-in-chief of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, Valerii Zaluzhnyi, is planning a new counteroffensive. According to experts and journalists, he may be gathering resources for new operations in 2024.

In turn, the new chief of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, Oleksandr Syrskyi, said that the Ukrainian military had moved to a new stage of warfare against Russia, which aims to exhaust the enemy.