WP: U.S. intelligence says Ukraine will fail to meet offensive’s key goal

U.S. intelligence says Ukraine will fail to meet offensive’s key goal
The U.S. intelligence community assesses that Ukraine’s counteroffensive will fail to reach the key southeastern city of Melitopol, people familiar with the classified forecast told The Washington Post, a finding that, should it prove correct, would mean Kyiv won’t fulfill its principal objective of severing Russia’s land bridge to Crimea in this year’s push.
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/08/17/ukraine-counteroffensive-melitopol/