The United States is “disappointed” by Zelensky’s attack. Moscow is pursuing an Italian judge

While the first explicit concerns about the success of the Ukrainian counterattack are leaking out from the United States, “Far West”-style posters are being put up in Russia asking for cooperation in the arrest of Rosario Italla, the Italian investigating judge at the Assize Court in The Hague who, along with two other judges, endorsed a warrant. The arrest of Vladimir Putin, who in the meantime has to deal with another case caused by the words of Prigozhin, the head of the Wagner mercenary company.

They reported that “the Ukrainian counterattack had less success than might have been expected in its initial stages, and the Russian forces showed greater efficiency than Western assessments the day before.” CNN Two Western officials and a senior US military official. The sources say that the counterattack “does not meet expectations on any front.” Kiev responds by saying it has kept at least 15 battalions in reserve, ready for action after the front lines have established positions at a sufficient distance to launch missile attacks on deeper Russian positions.

The poster containing the arrest warrant and the image of Italian judge Rosario Itala was distributed by the Russian agency Rowan Novosti-Web.

But the remarkable cautious attitude coming from the United States confirms that things are going worse than expected, also due to the Kherson flood, which led to the breaking of the Kakhovka Dam, which effectively limited the options for Ukrainian progress. General Oleksandr Sersky, commander of the ground forces in Kiev, confirmed for the first time that the main deployment of the offensive reserve forces had not yet taken place: “Everything has not happened yet,” he said in an interview with guardian From a military base in eastern Ukraine. Sersky did not hide the difficulties of the fighting, and that Moscow had launched offensive efforts in recent days: “Our main force has not yet participated in the fighting, and we are now looking for weak points in the enemy’s defenses. Everything has not happened yet.” Yevgeny Prigozhin, the head of the Wagner Group, released a new video in which he questions Russia’s main justifications for the war in Ukraine, arguing that there was no reason to attack Kiev and that the country’s military leadership had “deceived” the Russian people and Putin himself, when he It is possible instead to negotiate with Volodymyr Zelensky and avoid conflict.

In the 30-minute video posted to his Telegram channel, Prigozhin claimed that “nothing out of the ordinary happened on the eve of February 24,” adding that “the Department of Defense is trying to deceive the public and the president by telling the story that there were insane levels of aggression.” From the Ukrainian side and that they were going to attack us together with the entire NATO bloc. Indeed, the head of Wagner said, “Kiev has not bombed Donbass for 8 years, it has only hit Russian positions. And the special operation was launched for a completely different reason. Prigozhin finally added that the Russian leadership could have avoided war by negotiating with the Ukrainian president.

In Russia, however, several publications appeared that were reissued by the pro-government news agency RIA Novosti With which Rosario is officially prosecuted by Salvatore Itala, the Sicilian judge who is a member of the court, if anything there will be a trial, he will have to prosecute Vladimir Putin and the Russian Commissioner for Childhood, Maria Luva Belova, who are accused of crimes against Ukrainian minors. And the “reward”, which recalls the appeals in the Old West with which they demanded the extradition of the wanted man, states that “the Criminal Investigation Department of the Main Directorate of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs for the city of Moscow is looking for Itala Rosario Salvatore,” where he indicates personal data and then specifies: “He got away.” from the investigation.”