I can advise viewers to come to Ukraine and show how to launch an offensive - director of the Ukrainian Charitable Foundation Come Back Alive

This is how Taras Chmut commented on the thesis of Western experts and political analysts that the Ukrainian offensive began "slowly" on the Voice of America.

"I can advise them to come or stop giving an assessment of what they do not understand. Or finally, realise that the world has not seen the kind of war that Ukraine is waging for many decades," Chmut said.

In his opinion, such messages hinder Ukraine because "people who do not know what a real war is, give an assessment of how to fight, without understanding what it is."

"This creates unnecessary questions and unnecessary expectations that cannot be met. Because no army can cope with the density of mines in our situation. And the issue here is not that we are advancing slowly," said the director of Come Back Alive.

This is the reason why Ukraine is slowly and carefully conducting offensive actions, Chmut believes. This allows to minimise costs. 

"We are advancing every day. Maybe not in kilometres, maybe in tens of metres, but we are advancing. Over the past year and a half, Ukraine has shown that it is able to fight and can fight in this war. And most importantly, it can win," he added.