 Ukraine planned to launch a counter-offensive on April 30th. The United States and allies are supplying weapons and preparing Ukraine for a counter-offensive scheduled for April 30th. This is reported by Newsweek magazine, citing leaked secret Pentagon documents. According to the magazine, US intelligence is meticulously following the fighting around Bakhmut, mapping Russian troops down to individual trenches and tracking every electronic squawk from individual cell phones to radars. The soda straw view shows Bakhmut slowly falling into Russian hands. Its loss will be a psychological blow, but the town is not vital to the overall war and the United States and its allies are looking to the future, busy building up Ukraine for the spring counter-offensive that the documents say is slated to begin at the end of April. That date comes none too soon for Ukraine. Russia can barely support its forces and is in a mad rush to replenish its troops on the battlefield. US intelligence concludes that as many as 43,000 Russian soldiers have been killed and 180,000 have been wounded since February 2022. That's more than the entire size of the initial invading force. The war has also been costly for Ukraine. Its losses are as high as 131,000 killed and wounded. Earlier on April 15, Ukrainian Prime Minister Denis Shmihal said that Kiev had no secrets from Washington regarding the planned offensive. We are confident that the counter-offensive will take place in the near future. The United States absolutely supports us, he said.