Ukrainian soldiers continue their counteroffensive operations in many directions, though the information leakage and a lack of weapons are making their own corrections.

Igor Romanenko, a Lieutenant-General and former Deputy Chief of the AFU General Staff, told about this on the air of Apostrophe TV.

According to him, the realization of the objective laws of war is not easy, and they do not depend on wishes or political views. It's up to analyze one's own capabilities as well as the enemy's potential.

"If we talk about our counteroffensive, we should keep in mind that it has started. The growth of our potential is slow bacause of the volume and delay of Western weapon supplies. In spring they gave us an advice to attack in the south of Zaporizhzhya and Donetsk regions. When we were still preparing our counteroffensive brigades the leak of secret information had happened, including the interview of an American Air Force officer, in which he voiced quite a lot of information about what brigades were being prepared and why. "It is clear that the enemy in situation like this prepared a powerful defense on the specified direction that in the end we were able to overcome only the first line of defense 'Surovikin line'," explained the Lieutenant General.

He underlined that results can be achieved when there are opportunities. The Ukrainian military went in without the cover of aviation and additional strike capability.

"We and the Western partners, we all wanted to get a result like we did last year in Kharkiv region, but the objective laws of war put everything in its place," Romanenko added.

At the moment the AFU started a strategic defense along the entire front line. Ukrainian fighters are destroying enemy forces to gain time for preparing offensive operations, because it is necessary to accumulate resources and prepare.

He also expressed the opinion that it would have been very sad when the offensive had started in April.

"In spring, we didn't have enought of potential, so the results could have been worse than they are now. There is an element of military planning there. The offensive was going in 4 directions - Bakhmut, Berdyansk, Melitopol and Kherson. Three directions had to be stopped, that allowed us to concentrate on one. Western partners insisted that we should go to the coast of Azov Sea, but our leadership then responded that if we have stopped the offensive in the area of Bakhmut, it would allow Russians to regroup and move again to Kharkiv region," Romanenko summarized.