U.S. Lieutenant General Ben Hodges said the Ukrainian victory in the Kharkiv region could persuade other nations to help Ukraine.
Gian Gentile, the deputy director of the Rand Corporation's Army Research Division, and Raphael Cohen, the director of the Strategy and Doctrine Program at the Rand Corporation's Project Air Force, agreed with Hodges that the Ukrainian victory sends an international message.
"Above all, the battle of Kharkiv has shown Ukraine, Russia, and the world that an outright Ukrainian victory is possible," Gentile and Cohen wrote in a Saturday analysis for Foreign Policy. "While Ukraine had already proved that it could successfully defend its terrain [as it did during the Battle of Kyiv], conduct precision artillery strikes, and mount limited special operations missions, there was a lingering question of whether it could launch and sustain the large-scale offenses necessary to regain Ukrainian territory," they wrote."After the battle of Kharkiv, these doubts can be put to rest.
On Monday, Hodges said the third consequence of the Ukrainian counteroffensive is how the world will change its views on Crimea, which is officially part of Ukraine but a center of pro-Russia sentiment."Soon, [the Ukrainians] will be able to hit Russian targets in Crimea," he added."And then when they do that every day, it's just a matter of time. I think people in Crimea are already starting to leave. They're going across that bridge, getting out of there.
He added that in the meantime, he thinks Ukraine should wait to target the bridge because it still serves as an escape route for civilians and can be used as leverage for the military.
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