REZNIKOV: ‘MISPERCEPTION COUNTEROFFENSIVE SHOULD BE QUICK’: As the Biden administration is poised to announce that another $400 million in ammunition and drones will be sent to Ukraine from U.S. stocks, Ukraine’s defense minister concedes Russia’s defensive lines are proving more formidable than he hoped.

“It’s a question of the ammunition, of the artillery shells, of the more artillery systems. It’s a question that we have a very long battlefield line also, and we have against us big quantity of enemies,” Oleksii Reznikov told CNN’s Alex Marquardt in an interview that aired last night. “It’s a misperception that every counteroffensive should be quick. We had time to prepare our armed forces with our partners, but they also had time to make security zone with the trenches, with their mines.”