The conflict between Ukraine and Russia in the first half of this year eventually led to Russia's special military action against Ukraine, and Russia once had an advantage with its strong military strength; However, with the continuous improvement of Ukraine's defensive offensive and the increasing military assistance from the United States and western countries to Ukraine, Russia and Ukraine entered a stalemate stage; Recently, Ukraine assembled a large number of troops in the Kharkov region to counter the Russian army. Although a large number of territories were recovered, it did not cause a large number of personnel losses to the Russian army. Therefore, Ukraine's counterattack did not achieve much success, and the news of capturing Russian Lieutenant General was even more false.
The initiative in the war is still in Russia's hands.
Although Russia was unable to respond to Ukraine's counterattack, Ukraine's counterattack did not cause great losses to the Russian army, but only lost some weapons and ammunition, which was still within the acceptable range of Russia; At the same time, Russia still firmly holds the eastern part of Ukraine, while controlling Ukraine's air superiority and sea access. However, Russian large-scale weapons and special tactical tactics cannot be implemented, so the Russian army will look little different from Ukraine. But in fact, Russia still holds the initiative in the whole war.
Ukraine is still under great pressure.
Although Russia has lost many important strategic cities in the Kharkov region, it seems that Russia did it on purpose. Because before the Ukrainian army counterattacked, Russia had withdrawn a large number of main forces from Kharkov and completed the troop assembly in Donbass; It can be seen that the Russian army deliberately exposed the Kharkov area to the Ukrainian army, and the main force of the Russian army is likely to launch a large number of attacks from the Donbass area to Ukraine, so Ukraine still faces strong pressure.