Military expert Oleg Zhdanov is sure that the Ukrainian army will not be able to repeat the rapid Kharkiv scenario during the spring counteroffensive.

One of the reasons is

the density of Russian and Ukrainian troops.

The expert expressed this opinion on his YouTube channel. 

"Repeat the Kharkiv operation may happen again, but in a different way. I can say for sure that to repeat the speed of advance, as in the Kharkiv operation, well, it will probably be very difficult. Why? Because the density of troops is quite large. At that time, there were approximately

120 150 thousand, taking into account losses.

Even taking into account the fact that the Russian northern grouping was transferred to the east, the density of troops

then was 4 times lower than now.

You should not count on this, but something similar to the Kharkiv operation - a deep maneuverable breakthrough, I fully I expect from our troops, from our General Staff that such an option is possible," he believes.

Regarding the duration of the counteroffensive of the Defense Forces, Zhdanov suggests that the special operation may last for several months.

According to him,

at least for a month or two.  

We will remind, on March 20, the Russian Federation announced the appearance of US strategic bombers near their state border.

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