**At the end of the first week of June 2023, the long-awaited offensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine began in the south of Ukraine. Many analysts indicated that her goal would be to scope the Azov Sea and the Crimea. However, the first days of fighting proved that Ukrainian actions would not match last year's "blitzkrieg" from the Kharkiv region, and would be closer to them to dense and long fighting in the Kherson region, which stretched for respective summertime and autumn months. What is the phase of the Ukrainian offensive? Can we talk about failure?**
