: Is the West goading Zelensky to launch a new offensive against Russia in Ukraine? #IndiaNEWS #Other News By Sergei StrokanNew Delhi, July 30 (IANS) A big statement by Ukraines President Vladimir Zelensky

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Is the West goading Zelensky to launch a new offensive against Russia in Ukraine? #IndiaNEWS #Other News
By Sergei StrokanNew Delhi, July 30 (IANS) A big statement by Ukraines President Vladimir Zelensky about his determination to recover the lost territories of Donbas in the next three to six weeks has raised eyebrows across the globe.
Zelenskys assertion of launching a massive counteroffensive in the south, has been carefully timed. The Ukrainian President chose June 28 the eve of the Day of Ukrainian Statehood, when nationalistic fervour runs highfor his major declaration.
But what is the real backstory that is persuading Zelensky to announce that he was now set to radically change the course of the six-month military campaign with Russia, which began in late February this year?
Is Zelensky making his move because Ukraine has already lost control over 20 per cent of its territory, which not only includes a large part of the unrecognised republics of Donbass, but also the Kherson and Zaporozhye regions. As a result of his military setbacks, does he think that his political survival is now at stake?
In fact, Ukraine has lost the strategically important southeast, where one of the largest nuclear power plants in Europe is located.
This is also a region that opens the way to the Black Sea, which is inscribed in the new NATO strategy as a priority zone on the southern and eastern flanks of the North Atlantic Alliance.
It is here that Zelensky, who recently received American HIMARIS and other weapons and is waiting for new arrivals, plans to kick Russia in the teeth. He is also trying to assemble a one million strong army, mobilising people as old as 60.
Therefore, has a point of inflection, a now or never situation for the Ukrainian President, been reached in the Ukrainian conflict?
In all likelihood, Zelensky is feeling the heat from the West. Having invested so much money and weapons and putting its international prestige on line, the West badly wants Kiev to record a decisive victory over Russia, instead of staring at defeat.
Unsurprisingly, in his major address in the last week of July to raise national morale, Zelensky called for a unified response to stand up to Russia.
Ironically, the events of the last weeks and days show that internal cohesion may be falling apart in Ukraine.
Deep fault lines are emerging in Ukraines political and military elite. In fact, President Zelensky is waging his war on two fronts simultaneously-one of course is against Russia and the other is supposedly against so-called internal enemies.
Zelensky has therefore launched mega-purge that is targeting the pillars of the Ukrainian statesecurity forces, law enforcement officers, oligarchs who have huge resources and capabilities to build a phalanx against Russia.

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