{"id":54259,"date":"2023-04-12T03:15:15","date_gmt":"2023-04-11T18:15:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/apr\/11\/us-ukraine-counter-offensive-pentagon-leaks-reveal"},"modified":"2023-04-12T03:15:15","modified_gmt":"2023-04-11T18:15:15","slug":"us-feared-ukraine-could-fall-well-short-in-spring-counter-offensive-leaks-reveal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=54259","title":{"rendered":"US feared Ukraine could fall \u2018well short\u2019 in spring counter-offensive, leaks reveal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Top secret\u2019 document reportedly warned Kyiv faced shortfalls in troops and weaponry and suggested any gains would be modest<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/apr\/11\/pentagon-leak-traced-to-video-game-chat-group-users-arguing-over-war-in-ukraine\">Pentagon leak traced to video game chat about Ukraine<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>US intelligence reportedly warned in February that Ukraine might fail to amass sufficient troops and weaponry for its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/mar\/24\/russian-forces-preparing-ukrainian-counteroffensive-dmitry-medvedev\">planned spring counter-offensive<\/a>, and might fall \u201cwell short\u201d of Kyiv\u2019s goals for recapturing territory seized by Russia, according to one of a trove of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2023\/apr\/10\/us-defense-documents-leak-analysts\">leaked defence documents<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A document tagged as \u201ctop secret\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national-security\/2023\/04\/10\/leaked-documents-ukraine-counteroffensive\/\">quoted by the Washington Post<\/a> said that Kyiv was facing significant \u201cforce generation and sustainment shortfalls\u201d and was therefore only likely to achieve \u201cmodest territorial gains\u201d. The document is a snapshot of the situation in early February, and it is unclear how far Ukraine, with the support of Nato member states, has been able to make up the shortfalls since then.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/apr\/11\/us-ukraine-counter-offensive-pentagon-leaks-reveal\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Top secret\u2019 document reportedly warned Kyiv faced shortfalls in troops and weaponry and suggested any gains would be modestPentagon leak traced to video game chat about UkraineUS intelligence reportedly warned in February that Ukraine might fail to am&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,221,1228,939,419,222,930,45,473,47,818,2525,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-europe","category-hungary","category-joe-biden","category-russia","category-south-korea","category-ukraine","category-us-foreign-policy","category-us-military","category-us-news","category-vladimir-putin","category-volodymyr-zelenskiy","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54259"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54260,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54259\/revisions\/54260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}