Senior Ukrainian officials are worried that the counter-attacks against Moscow will not meet the expectations of other countries from Kiev for the success of their operations after backing down from claiming victory in the war with Russia.

Afghan Voice Agency (AVA): Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksiy Reznikov has told the Washington Post newspaper that the expectation of our counter-attack campaign in the world has been underestimated. Most people are waiting for something big to happen.
 
According to this report, the renewal of forces before the counter-attacks, the details of which are still secret, has made the Ukrainian authorities question what result is enough to influence the West, especially the United States.
 
Some worry that if the Ukrainians show up less than expected, Kiev could lose international military aid or face renewed pressure to engage with Moscow at the negotiating table rather than the battlefield, the Washington Post adds.
 
The report emphasizes that such negotiations include Russian demands for the surrender of Ukrainian lands, which Kiev considers unacceptable.
 
In this connection, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky told the Washington Post newspaper last Monday: I believe that the more victories we have on the battlefield, the more people will believe in us, which means that we will receive more aid.
 
According to the report, Kiev is willing to make rapid progress in a war that has been slow with artillery fire in the south and east and neither side making significant territorial advances.
 
Experts declared that it will be difficult to push the Russians back to their positions before the start of the war; when parts of Luhansk, Donetsk and the Crimean Peninsula were in their possession.
 
According to the Washington Post, this pressure is partly due to Ukraine's past successes on the battlefield. First, he repelled the Russian attempt to capture Kiev and later pushed the Russian troops out of their strongholds in Kharkiv and Kherson regions.
 
In this regard, the Minister of Defense of Ukraine has claimed: We were an inspiration everywhere because it was thought that we would fall within 72 hours. But history shows that Ukraine's partners now have a common expectation that Ukraine will succeed again.
 
Reznikov revealed that Western partners have told him they need the next example of success now, because they need to show it to their people. But I cannot tell them what the scale of this success will be. Ten kilometers, 30 kilometers, 100 kilometers, 200 kilometers?
 
According to this report, the great success of Ukraine could bring them the western weapons and ammunition that this country needs to continue the war.
 
It is said that Russia may now have a geographical and troop advantage. The Minister of Defense of Ukraine has said that about 500,000 Russian troops are currently concentrated in Ukraine and at least 300,000 of them are inside Ukraine.