“I see the counteroffensive as a failure, despite some mild gains and success targeting Russian ships in the Black Sea,” Benjamin H. Friedman, policy director of the Defense Priorities think tank, told Yahoo News. “They’d have been better served to stay on defense and hope to wear down Russian will rather than exhausting so much capability trying for breakthroughs.”
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