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This is a perfect example of naked propaganda. Blinken distracts from the fact that the main offensive that's been talked up for like half a year now failed to make any progress in over two months by talking about the gains Ukraine managed to make last year against territory Russia didn't actually contest at the time.
The real question everybody should be asking is what happens once this offensive burns itself out. NATO basically sent all it could for this offensive, and turns out it was already known before the offensive started that this would not be enough https://www.wsj.com/articles/ukraines-lack-of-weaponry-and-training-risks-stalemate-in-fight-with-russia-f51ecf9
New equipment has to be produced now, and given the woeful state of western industry it's going to take months and years to do that. Here's what the latest DoD statement had to say:
NYT is now reporting that the Ukrainian army is becoming exhausted and it's already suffering shortages https://web.archive.org/web/20230723093205/https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/23/world/europe/weary-soldiersunreliable-munitions-ukraines-many-challenges.html
So, what exactly do people think is going to happen when the Russian army starts an offensive of their own against an exhausted and depleted Ukrainian army?
The same thing that happened during the last Russian offensive, absolutely nothing because the Russian army is even more exhausted and depleted than the Ukrainians, and we seem to be in a period of military history again where the defense is much stronger than the offense (at least in a scenario with no clear air superiority).