Earlier this month, President Volodymyr Zelensky announced that Ukraine had formed a reserve of 14 brigades that could not be sent to the front lines due to a lack of weapons and equipment.
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It appears that the Defense Forces will not be able to launch a large-scale counteroffensive campaign, but will move on to a series of identical operations by the end of this year or throughout 2025, writes NBN, citing the Institute for the Study of War (ISW).
ISW analysts are confident that breaking out of the current deadlock positional war in Ukraine will be a very difficult task for both Putin’s army and the Armed Forces of Ukraine, however, less global counter-offensive actions of the Defense Forces will likely open up a number of opportunities to achieve operationally significant goals without problems associated with the implementation of a larger counter-offensive.
In particular, small counter-offensive operations may allow the Ukrainian army to gradually deplete the potential of the “liberators”, that is, to interrupt the regular use of the Russian Federation's advantages in technique and  ;”manpower” on the battlefield, thereby minimizing the pressure on the defenders.
ISW summarized:
…Ukrainian forces will continue to defend for the next 6 months and will not be able to conduct a large-scale counter-offensive operation until 2025.
We previously wrote that ISW listed the tasks that the Ukrainian Armed Forces need to complete to launch a large counteroffensive.