Well-spotted. Zagreb ebnen zloty dien.
Translation please.
This is what google translate thinks:
Zagreb pave zloty dien
Here’s more in-depth analysis about a 22-second clip from a 30-year-old cartoon episode than you ever thought possible;
Sorry I realized after I posted that it wouldn’t be obvious what it meant. It is a line of text in a fake language from The Simpsons. @Smapti’s link gives more info.
don’t count your ammo dumps until they’re snatched.
I find myself pondering the fallout if the US offered to help Armenia.
On the other hand, it could make things a little TOO interesting.
Pelosi led a congressional delegation to Armenia this weekend, so the US is at least providing moral support.
https://edition.cnn.com/2022/09/17/politics/nancy-pelosi-armenia-delegation-visit/index.html
Interesting situation in Kherson. I believe it’s in Ukraine’s benefit to keep the Russian troops contained in Kherson for awhile. They’re cut off from supplies and their strength is slowly degrading. There’s no need for Ukraine to push too fast.
Ukraine can continue preparing to retake Luhansk Oblast. ISW says the capture of Lyman is a key first step.
This is optimistic news for Ukraine’s counter offensive.
ISW Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, September 18 | Institute for the Study of War
If Russia abandons Armenia, won’t Turkey help Azarbijan just steamroll the place?
Never mind, I’ll start it somewhere else. 
when reading my daily dose of ISW, I always wonder if that is Russian Army’s overall best source of “how are we doing in the war” ???
Oh, absolutely. They should continue to force Russians to fight while poorly supplied and without all the combat support they’d otherwise be getting if they weren’t having to rely on supply via a makeshift ferry system. The Russian troops fighting in Kherson are the best they have remaining. Having these troops fighting a losing battle over several weeks will do much to further degrade morale. Ukraine wants Russian survivors to be evacuated to the opposite side of the Dnieper with the general impression of “holy crap we made it out of there alive”. If that’s the prevailing mindset of the lion’s share of their core forces, the outcome of this conflict for the Russians is truly doomed.
[Emphasis original]
“As we’ve established fire control over river crossings and logistical routes in the region, these (enemy) units have to realize they are stuck between our forces and the (Dnipro) river bank,” said Humeniuk.
“They’ve been offered to surrender under the auspices of international humanitarian law or to return home – although it’s unclear how that would manage that.”
According to Humeniuk, intelligence reports suggest enemy troops in the region are demoralized and don’t see any point in their continued deployment to the area.
Side note: I’ve seen references to troops on the right side of the Dnipro and the left side. Is that determined by the direction of the current flow?
Your link is from Yahoo, quoting a Ukrainian source.
I still use an old email account at Yahoo, so I check the site every day, and it always feeds me several links from Ukrainian news sources. Sources which are , of course, biased. The headlines are always upbeat and encouraging. Even when Mauripol was being destroyed, the headlines Yahoo displayed said things like “heroic fighting in Maruipol is slowing the Russians down.”
So I hope your link is true…but let’s see if some other international sources report the same thing.
Yes, it’s left/right from the perspective of an observer looking downstream.
ISW uses more moderate language in describing what’s been going in Kherson. Rather than ‘trapped’ they use phrases like “Russian forces are conceding and losing tactically significant positions in unspecified areas in Kherson Oblast.” or “Russians conducting a controlled withdrawal.” What is clear in most reporting is that Russians are: a) retreating, b) sustaining losses, and c) appear to be making preparations for future defenses on the opposite bank of the Dniepro River. Meaning Russian command already can see which way the wind is blowing in Kherson.
If I was in charge of Russian forces I would cede Kherson, get as many soldiers out as possible and redeploy those ~20k troops to Zaporizhia to blunt the next Ukrainian counter-offensive, but I bet Putin will prevent that from happening here with his micromanaging/meddling as Kherson is such a political prize.
Kherson isn’t a political prize. The Dnipro river is almost certainly a major economic conduit for the country, running right down the middle of the country and - I assume - transporting a lot of supplies to the ocean. Controlling the outlet would severely hamper the country’s ability to trade through the Mediterranean.
It’s similar to Britian’s logic in taking Hong Kong. They controlled the outlet of the Pearl River, which was one of China’s largest trade systems.
It’s the largest city that Russia managed to capture intact the entire war (they more or less completely destroyed Mariupol). It’s economically important for the reasons you named, but losing Kherson now would absolutely be an enormous political loss for Putin.
(with apologies to Baghdad Bob)
" They’re not even [within] 100 miles [of Kherson]. They are not in any place. They hold no place in Ukraine. This is an illusion … they are trying to sell to the others an illusion."
Thanks!