Spring has finally sprung in southern Ukraine. And with temperatures hitting a high of 78 degrees Fahrenheit last weekend, expectations of a long-awaited counteroffensive against occupying Russian forces are in full bloom.
“It’s the same soil you get in northwest France,” said James Rands, a military expert with British intelligence firm Janes, pointing to the site of famously muddy, bloody battles during World War I. “But by all accounts, it’s worse.”
Now, warming weather provides other advantages, including better tree cover for troops and vehicles and more hours of daylight. Other experts said ground conditions were no longer a cause for delay. “The weather used to be one of the factors,” Ukrainian military expert Oleksiy Melnyk said. “But not the main one.”
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