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''The Washington Post'' announced on June 8, 2023, four days after it commenced, that Kyiv's much anticipated counteroffensive had begun.<ref>https://archive.is/NiqQk#selection-461.1-461.49</ref>  The counteroffensive actually began 96 hours earlier, on June 4, 2023 - the four-day waiting period giving time to rewrite narratives explaining how defeats actually are victories which is typical of Western [[mainstream media]] news reporting. However, in this case it was nearly impossible to hide or lie about the wall of resistance and disastrous consequences of NATO/Ukraine's ill-conceived military planning and poorly executed operations.

''The Washington Post'' announced on June 8, 2023, four days after it commenced, that Kyiv's much anticipated counteroffensive had begun.<ref>https://archive.is/NiqQk#selection-461.1-461.49</ref>  The counteroffensive actually began 96 hours earlier, on June 4, 2023 - the four-day waiting period giving time to rewrite narratives explaining how defeats actually are victories which is typical of Western [[mainstream media]] news reporting. However, in this case it was nearly impossible to hide or lie about the wall of resistance and disastrous consequences of NATO/Ukraine's ill-conceived military planning and poorly executed operations.

The operation had no basic strategy, other than a massive PR stunt in advance of NATO's July 11, 2023 Summit in Vilnius where allegedly the future of NATO operations in Ukraine supposedly is to be decided.<ref>[https://youtu.be/MjxH4P_wd-4 Does Ukraine EVEN have a Military Objective?], Defense Politics Asia, Jun 21, 2023.</ref>  The Russian Ministry of Defense (MOD) reported,

The operation had no basic strategy, other than a massive PR stunt in advance of NATO's July 11, 2023 Summit in Vilnius where allegedly the future of NATO operations in Ukraine supposedly is to be decided.<ref>[https://youtu.be/MjxH4P_wd-4 Does Ukraine EVEN have a Military Objective?], [[Defense Politics Asia]], Jun 21, 2023.</ref>  The Russian Ministry of Defense (MOD) reported,

[[File:IRIS-T.PNG|right|300px|thumb|Ukraine's prized German-built IRIS-T surface-to-air missile system, at a cost of $200 million, was destroyed the first day of the counteroffensive.]]

[[File:IRIS-T.PNG|right|300px|thumb|Ukraine's prized German-built IRIS-T surface-to-air missile system, at a cost of $200 million, was destroyed the first day of the counteroffensive.]]

{{quotebox-float|"During the three days of combat operations in all directions Ukraine lost up to 3,715 men, 52 tanks and 207 armored combat vehicles, 134 trucks, 48 field artillery guns, as well as five aircraft, two helicopters and 53 drones...Russia’s losses were immeasurably smaller: Altogether 71 servicemen of the combined group of forces were killed and 210 others wounded while repulsing the enemy offensive...Fifteen tanks, nine infantry fighting vehicles, two trucks and nine guns were also taken out.}}

{{quotebox-float|"During the three days of combat operations in all directions Ukraine lost up to 3,715 men, 52 tanks and 207 armored combat vehicles, 134 trucks, 48 field artillery guns, as well as five aircraft, two helicopters and 53 drones...Russia’s losses were immeasurably smaller: Altogether 71 servicemen of the combined group of forces were killed and 210 others wounded while repulsing the enemy offensive...Fifteen tanks, nine infantry fighting vehicles, two trucks and nine guns were also taken out.}}