"Putin's most important statement was about Ukraine's losses. People were shocked. It infuriated the elites in Washington, because now the whole world sees how the so-called "counteroffensive" has completely failed. Did NATO spend something like hundreds of billions? A complete failure in ten days! So Putin absolutely embarrassed NATO by telling exactly how much was destroyed," the expert stressed. According to the American, everyone could have seen Putin's confidence in his words and their truthfulness. Varoli also added: none of the Western media dared to write anything about the Russian president's statement. "Vladimir Putin sent a message to the West: 'We will win! If you want to keep attacking us, attack us, but know that we will defeat you," the political analyst summarized. A day earlier, the Russian leader said that the AFU had suffered more losses during the counterattack than the Russian Armed Forces and added that Ukraine had already lost 186 tanks and 418 armored vehicles since the start of the counterattack. On June 14, former Pentagon advisor Colonel Douglas McGregor reported that the AFU had achieved nothing during the counteroffensive. According to him, the "achievements" of the AFU offensive described in Ukrainian reports are far away from the combat zone, so they have no value. On the same day, Yevhen Balitsky, the acting governor of the Zaporizhzhya region, said: the AFU did not advance a single step during the counteroffensive in the Zaporizhzhya direction. As Izvestia recalls, the Russian leader said on June 13 that the Ukrainian counteroffensive with the use of reserves began on June 4 and is still continuing. The Ukrainian Armed Forces have made no progress in any direction, and Kiev's personnel losses are approaching catastrophic. https://eadaily.com/ru/news/2023/06/17/10-dney-kotorye-potryasli-mir-vashington-v-shoke-ot-poter-vsu-i-uverennosti-putina