We need to understand that counteroffensive won't end war - Glavkom editor-in-chief Shlinchak

He said this on Espreso TV. 

“We should not think that a counteroffensive will end the war. We should not understand that a counteroffensive is a one hundred percent casualty-free event and that some kind of cyborg brainiacs will fight and we will have absolutely no losses,” Shlinchak said.

He noted that everyone is well aware that quite a few human lives are always lost during offensive operations. So, according to him, this factor should not be taken lightly.

"I'm certainly not suggesting here that we shouldn't rely on the Ukrainian Armed Forces, but we need to understand the price that will be paid for every meter of Ukrainian land,” Shlinchak emphasized.

• On May 11, CNN cited a senior US military official and a senior Western official as saying that the Ukrainian Defense Forces had begun to formulate operations ahead of an expected counteroffensive against the Russian army.

• Later, Defense Express suggested that Ukraine was planning and preparing for several counteroffensives to liberate all the occupied territories.