counteroffensive
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Senior Ukrainian military and political leaders began discussing a large-scale midrange strike campaign following the failed 2023 Ukrainian counteroffensive.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 24, 2026
The EU pursues its trade counteroffensive with some economic wind at its back.
From Barron's ● Jan. 15, 2026
Valerii Zaluzhnyi, then Milley’s Ukrainian counterpart, led the army that defeated Russian forces attempting to seize Kyiv in the early days of the war and drove them back in Ukraine’s counteroffensive.
From Slate ● Mar. 19, 2025
It’s a proactive counteroffensive, built on showing that democratic alternatives exist and can work both to identify and solve real problems, and to bring people together.
From Salon ● Dec. 7, 2024
But Margo had given me a way of starting a counteroffensive.
From "Paper Towns" by John Green
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