Ex CIA director David Petraeus, shares expectations of robust Ukrainian counteroffensive 

The Guardian reports this. 

"I think that this counteroffensive is going to be very impressive. My sense is that they will achieve combined arms effects in other words, they will successfully carry out combined arms operations where you have engineers that are breaching the obstacles and diffusing the minefields and so forth; armour following right on through protected by infantry against anti-tank missiles; air defence keeping the Russians aircraft off them; electronic warfare jamming their radio networks; logistics right up behind them; artillery and mortars right out in front of them," Gen Petraeus said.

• It is worth noting that Serhiy Zgurets, Defense Express military expert, previously stated that a full-fledged counteroffensive by the Armed Forces was expected to commence towards the end of spring, with subsequent counteroffensive actions taking place in different directions.

• On June 3, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy declared that Ukraine was prepared to launch a counteroffensive, acknowledging that it might require time and come at a high cost.