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- Ukraine and the US are analyzing the failure of the counteroffensive, The New York Times said.
- The US underestimated Russia's defenses and had unrealistic expectations, the report said.
- Ukrainian forces practiced storming far weaker positions than those they encountered, it added.
Unrealistic US expectations about Ukraine's counteroffensive were partly to blame for its failure, unnamed military leaders in Ukraine told The New York Times.
"There are a lot of reasons why the counteroffensive failed, but the Ukrainian critique has some truth to it," Eric Ciaramella, a scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace told the publication.