Heh, that’s exactly what I was thinking, on reading that post, too.
Probably not realistic, but I still hold a (very faint) glimmer of hope of Kasparov ending up in charge.
People in Kyiv are tired but find ways to get through it.
Grumpy Kitty is completely done with your air raid bullshit, Vlad.
Wagner boss claims that Russian troops planted mines to harm his fighters in Bakhmut. I sure do hate it when Putin’s dogs fight each other.
He sure does, but the link is to the spy-boat story.
here is a link:
Dang it! Trying to feed cats and post links is a bad combination!
At least it wasn’t something embarrassing.
So it was the cats walking across your keyboard!?! Do you have an infinite number of cats and keyboards?
/jk
And we should note, Ukraine would have had an easier time of dealing with those Nazis if someone else wasn’t destabilizing the parts of Ukraine in which the Nazis were operating, limiting Ukraine’s options for application of force.
Mods, the last post was an error and I missed the edit window. Please remove as appropriate.
A bar graph in the article shows the Kiev missle attacks by month and the number of days.
It’s a dramatic increase since January. Imho it’s in response to air defense. A smaller percentage gets through and Russia compensates by sending more missiles.
Link Kyiv missile strikes: Tracking the rise of Russian attacks
FYI …
If you want mod action, click the … on the offending post, then the flag icon, then explain what you want in the input box at the bottom. They respond very promptly to those report / PMs.
They do not respond at all to posts starting out “hey mods”. Except by the random happenstance of seeing your post. Which is not all that likely.
I think we can leave the post.
Here’s an analysis by a “CNN Senior International correspondent” (the article’s description) on the usefulness of the cross-border attacks into Russia, headlined: " Ukraine’s cross-border tactics are aimed at destabilizing Russia. Judging by the response, they’re working."
I don’t have anywhere near the expertise to question the analysis, and would be interested to hear from those of you who could discuss how [in]accurate this take is.
Coincidentally, that’s the article that prompted my FQ question about ‘bravery gongs’.
As I said in the other thread, I think the point is far more to pull Russian military assets away from the southern front. Based on the current lines, the obvious thing for Ukraine to do is attack south from Zaporizhzhia towards Melitopol and the Sea of Azov. If they are successful in such an attack, they would make the Russian position in southern Kherson completely untenable, and significantly complicate the Russian logistical situation in Crimea. Add in a Storm Shadow attack on the Kerch bridge, and the Russian situation would become critical.
Of course, the Russians are well aware that this is the obvious thing for Ukraine to do, and so have been trying to prepare for it. They’ve been building defensive lines, saving up artillery ammo, etc. Given what we saw last year with Ukraine telegraphing the Kherson offensive (which was then the “obvious” place to attack, given the logistical complications of the Dnipro crossings being under constant attack) and then blindsiding the Russians with the Kharkiv offensive, I would not be surprised to see a fair bit of deviousness in the Ukrainian approach to this year’s offensive. These cross-border attacks are likely part of that.
See? That’s just what Nazis would do. Besides not rolling over and welcoming their Russian comrades with open arms, that’s further proof Putin was right!!1!
Or attack in multiple spots at once, the “obvious” targets and elsewhere.
Back in my days of taking martial arts, I learned that a kick to the groin was unlikely to succeed, because men reflexively do a very good job of protecting their groin. But for the same reason, it makes an excellent feint for the punch the the face that you launch at the same time. Unless they don’t fall for the feint, in which case it’s a kick to the groin.
That’s exactly what Ukraine did last summer with the attacks in both Kherson and Kharkiv. They could potentially do something similar with Melitopol/Berdyansk in the south and Svatove/Starobilsk in the northeast, with the added fun of actually letting the Russian militias try to hold territory around Belgorod or Bryansk if the Russians refuse to transfer forces away from the Ukrainian fronts to defend their own country.
Yeah. One or the other is gonna get through except with an expert opponent. If it’s really your day, both will. If it’s really not your day, well, … it’s really not your day.