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Ukraine says "no one understands this war better than we do," and many former generals agree: The West should listen to Kyiv.

The Institute for the Study of War (ISW) suggests that the Russians "almost certainly" will not be able to resume "offensive operations at scale" entrusted to infantry, which is in short supply in Russia.

Moscow's VDV Airborne Forces are used on offense and defense and have suffered heavy casualties throughout the war, according to Western intel.

Retired Major Oleksiy Hetman, a veteran of the Russian-Ukrainian war, discussed the effective advance of the Ukrainian Forces in the south and the unsuccessful Russian attacks on the Kupyansk direction in an interview with Radio NV on Aug. 26.

Ukrainian defenders are making progress and are consolidating their positions in the area of Novodanylivka and Novoprokopivka in Zaporizhzhia Oblast and to the south of Bakhmut in Donetsk Oblast. Source: General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine; Military Media Center Quote: "Ukrainian defenders have been successful and are consolidating their positions on the ground gained in the area of Novodanylivka and Novoprokopivka, inflicting artillery fire damage on identified enemy targets, and ...

Ukrainian forces conducted successful offensive operations in the directions of Melitopol and Bakhmut, the General Staff of Ukraine's Armed Forces reported on Aug. 24.

Andrii Kovalov, the spokesman of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, has said that Ukrainian troops had successfully gained ground near Novoprokopivka in Zaporizhzhia Oblast and are consolidating their positions.

The intelligence community of the UK Defence Ministry has analysed the offensive operations of Ukrainian and Russian forces over the past week and highlighted the advance of Ukrainian defenders in the south.

There is mounting evidence that Ukraine has been taking heavy casualties in its counteroffensive, which began roughly ten weeks ago. ABC News spoke with two former U.S. soldiers who are contracted in a special forces division of the Ukrainian military and who were both injured during an operation in eastern Ukraine two weeks ago.

Ukrainian soldiers in the Zaporozhye region have abandoned their offensive under airmobile battalions, with low morale and recent casualties driving their refusal.