Well, not completely unexpected:
Ukrainian tank (or IFV) vs Russian anti-tank triangular dragon’s teeth fortifications - irresistible force vs crushable objects:
Hoping for good news. I’m a little concerned Ukraine forces could get trapped on the left bank with no way to pull back.
Nice gesture and all, but I take it this is mostly symbolic? Predictably, Russia’s going to tell the UN to go pound sand, and how is the UN going to realistically enforce this? Continued sanctions until Russia pays up?
Deny claims multiple sources confirms the amphibious landing. I find his explanations with maps helpful.
Tomorrow’s news should be very interesting.
I caught that update, too. As he says, we shouldn’t take any of that as truth, but it may be interesting on the left bank of the Dnipro tomorrow. If Ukraine has pulled off amphibious assaults on two points of that river and can consolidate and begin to supply their positions, I will be more amazed than I have been at any point in this war.
If they do that and are able to push further, I’d start to bet that they could actually take Crimea by conventional means. I had assumed that bombing the bridge and starving Crimea would be a necessity. If this is actually happening and is successful, I’m not so sure.
I suspect Ukraine is benefiting greatly from US reconnaissance and intelligence gathering. They probably know most Russian positions and movements with fairly good accuracy.
They probably knew where and when Russian units were leaving, where they went, and where they were 20 minutes ago.
Probably with better accuracy than Russian command.
Any Russian assets in UN nations that voted for the resolution can be confiscated, liquidated, and credited to Ukraine for rebuilding.
I’ve learned that highway intersections are key positions. A lot of battles are fought to control them.
Things are heating up. Russians moved the Kherson HQ 12 1/2 miles.
And of course, Russia responds with Cruise missiles against Kiev and other cities. That’s all the bastards can do.
The crews operating the new missile defense systems are getting on the job training. They’ll get much better as the war continues.
Concerning the Ukr. amphibious operation on Kinburn Spit, it’s quite small scale. No heavy weapons involved. Likely, an effort to simply keep Russians occupied and off-balance following the Kherson retreat.
Oh right, I had completely forgotten about the seized assets, since that happened at the beginning of the war. Now that you mention it, I also recall Russia seizing other countries’ airplanes and maybe some other stuff too in retaliation, for no good reason aside from the Western countries being big meanies to them.
So now Russia will get a taste of their own thuggish tactics used against them. Me likey.
It also means Ukraine controls the mouth of the Dnieper River with its access to Kherson and the port city of Mykolaiv.
The long and thin Kinburn Peninsula has just one road running along it and it’s in range of Ukrainian artillery, so any Russian attack would be under artillery fire the whole way.
Two missiles land in Poland near Ukrainian border, killing two. Who knows if it is testing the waters, or a mistake:
I’d assume a mistake. Poland will respond angrily with words, might convince NATO and/or the EU to find even
more things to sanction, and that’ll be the end of it.
Perhaps this is wishful thinking on my part, but a no-fly zone (which Ukraine has been asking for since February) would seem to be the most effective way to proactively prevent errant Russian missiles from landing in NATO territory.
I wouldn’t. I would assume “testing the waters”. Putin may be thinking “How much will NATO respond?”
And I think the first response should be to massively support anti-missile systems in Ukraine, and increase military support to Ukraine.
Or looked like they were plotting. Or were thinking about plotting. Or looked like they were thinking about plotting.
The key thing is whether it’s a deliberate attack on the supply route for Western aid to Ukraine, as many have feared might happen, and which is something Russian propagandists and vatniks frequently espouse.
Here is Solovyov last night:
It seems unlikely to me that Russia actually would take this step, though.
They might try it out to see what would happen.
It is an attack on a NATO country. Putin may be gambling that it will get a tepid response (something less than a full declaration of war and nukes heading to Moscow), and this will give him a green light to conduct more attacks on NATO countries.
It looks like a farm and not a supply depot, anyway.
