Milli tells what the Ukrainian counter-offensive will be like

The head of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Mark Milley, believes the counter-offensive on the front will be "prolonged and bloody". This was reported by The Guardian.

He stressed that it appeared that it would be difficult for the Ukrainian defenders to succeed and that it would take time to liberate the territories seized by the Russians.

The Ukrainian soldiers' offensive is advancing steadily. They are deliberately forging their way through very difficult routes - minefields. They go 500 metres a day, 1,000 metres a day, 2,000 metres a day, and so on," Milli noted.

Milley said he is not surprised that progress is slower than some people and computers would have predicted.

War on paper and actual war are different things," he said.

The general stressed that war is about people's lives, not plans and charts on paper.

In a real war real people die. Real people are standing on the front line and real people are sitting in those cars. Real bodies are being blown to bits by explosives. It's going to be very long and very, very bloody. And no one should have any illusions about it," Milly noted.

He added that the next six to ten weeks could be very difficult for the Ukrainian army.