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i don't think RU military could've asked for a better gift than for UA reserves to just willingly leave Donbas and go stay somewhere else (even in RU).
Good, I am sure there will be many more gifts in the near future.
What do you think is going to happen south of the Seim River? I mean, all bridges blown up and drone footage showing three attempts of laying temporary pontoon bridges blasted by drones? One could think that the Ruzzia troops in there may experience some "difficulties" with supplies?
Today, a ferry full of fuel has been blasted near the Kerch bridge. It is also the fourth day in which the massive fuel depot at Proletarsk near Rostov keeps burning. Ruzzian firefighting teams have given up trying to contain it.
https://youtu.be/MT3LGz5yduI?t=12And it keeps burning...
Marinovka air field has been hit and it is likely a few planes have been successfully "decommissioned". The new Ukrainian drones explode at some altitude and are much more effective against soft targets, such as hangars and planes.
Putin is buying such an expensive bit of real state... I guess he thinks is worth the money (and the lives of others).
If UA will move its reserves out of Odesa I'm sure RU can find some land in Russia they can stay at for some time.
Doubt UA will be able to take south of Seim River, the element of surprise is gone, usually the more talk you hear the less action will follow. The thing about pontoon bridges is that we don't know how many were put up, and how many RU is able to put up per day, it's not a really wide river, there are also air bridges etc... UA moves have been purely for PR lately, so if they decide to put in more troops and temporary take south of Seim but permanently give up Kherson, i'm sure RU would probably go for that, so the question is what UA would be willing to give up for the south of Seim.
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Ukraine’s surprise mini-invasion of Russia provokes mixed feelings. Dublin says early successes lifted morale. But it didn’t last. The hope that Russia might respond by moving troops from Pokrovsk has been supplanted by the realisation that it has not. Ukrainian security sources confirm that while Russia has moved troops from other sections of the eastern front line, it reinforced around Pokrovsk. Ukraine meanwhile redeployed special forces units to Kursk, and is patching up the Pokrovsk front with untested formations. “The Russians have figured things out and aren’t taking the bait,” complains Dublin.
wondering who could possibly be pushing for this and breaking another round of peace talks for such a brilliant plan
BORIS JOHNSON: After a week of tactical brilliance, Ukraine could finally end this war
He can either let the insult go unavenged – impossible – or else he will be forced to retake the salient, village by village, with waves of conscript troops. What this war has shown so far is that it is far costlier – in blood and weapons – to retake a piece of land than to defend it.
So Putin will probably have to divert troops from elsewhere, and the Ukrainians are naturally hoping that this will relieve the pressure in the Donbas.
Ahh, right, of course Boris... Well, at least now no one can say that UA didn't try.
