Counteroffensive? because obviously it s been months here that we ve been talking about this. and during that time there were times we ve shown from above the video of giant trenches the russians are building, the mines they ve put in, everything they ve done to make this difficult. how hard is it going to be for ukraine to mount a significant and successful counteroffensive, which they need to do? well, the fight will be very, very difficult, obviously. what we will not see is the ukrainians launching themselves out of a box from a dead start. what they will no doubt do is they have to be able to strip away the enemy s ability to see them. so that s reconnaissance and counterreconnaissance. that will be very deliberate. it will be in very specific areas. and what the ukrainians are going to try to do is create a salient, an opening where they can apply force, and then they can penetrate and then start doing some operational maneuver against the russians. they can t afford as a resul ....