Russia's full-scale war against Ukraine is in a "new phase," President Volodymyr Zelensky said in an interview with the Associated Press published on Dec. 1. “We have a new phase of war, and that is a fact...winter as a whole is a new phase of war,” he said. When asked about the counteroffensive, he acknowledged it had not gone as Ukraine had hoped, admitting that it "did not achieve the desired results."
Well in military terms it's a counter offensive because they wanted to retake land that was occupied by the Russian offensive. But you're right, it's not technically an offensive because Ukraine didn't retake any land from Russia.
Well in military terms it's a counter offensive because they wanted to retake land that was occupied by the Russian offensive. But you're right, it's not technically an offensive because Ukraine didn't retake any land from Russia.
No, they aren't right at all. The military definition of offensive includes recapturing territory.