A report in The Washington Post on Tuesday indicated that US officials are piling the pressure on Ukraine to make a breakthrough against Russian forces, following weeks of bleak headlines.

“Ukraine is making limited advances in its counteroffensive against Russian forces but has yet to employ the kind of larger-scale operations that American officials believe could enable a breakthrough, officials, and analysts say, deepening questions among some of Ukraine’s chief backers about whether Kyiv can move fast enough to match a finite supply of munitions and arms,” WaPo wrote.

The unnamed American official further emphasized that it’s “paramount” that Ukrainian troops move quickly to establish momentum and break through the Russian front lines.

“Applying all those capabilities in a way that enables them to breach those obstacles, but do it quickly, is paramount,” the official said, while also acknowledging the “very tough” situation.

There also appears to disagreement over divergent approaches when it comes to military strategy, between NATO leadership and Kiev. According to more from the report:

Western officials and analysts say Ukraine’s military has so far embraced an attrition-based approach aimed largely at creating vulnerabilities in Russian lines by firing artillery and missiles at command, transport and logistics sites at the rear of the Russian position, instead of conducting what Western military officials call “combined arms” operations that involve coordinated maneuvers by large groups of tanks, armored vehicles, infantry, engineers, artillery and, sometimes, air power.

But Zelensky and his top officials have of late defended their tactics as necessary to preserve the safety and lives of troops. Ukrainian leaders have rejected what they call the Russian ‘meatgrinder’ approach to throwing whole units into frontline fighting. This as Ukrainian police have gotten more brutal in grabbing young men off the streets to throw them into military service.

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