“Ukrainian soldier says that the Ukrainian side used freshly delivered American M777 howitzers to smash 70+ Russian military vehicles to pieces as they tried to cross the Siverskyi Donets River on May 9th.”
That was in one of my links I believe
The battle of Kharkiv has been won by #Ukraine, with Russian forces withdrawing to the north & east. Today, analysis on what is next for Ukraine’s military as it exploits a faltering Russian eastern offensive. 1/25
3/ The Ukrainian success in the battle for Kharkiv is significant. It sees the recapture of Ukrainian territory and will ensure the city is out of Russian field artillery range. These are important humanitarian & political achievements for #Ukraine.
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This is a rather shallow or hollow victory, since the RGF withdrew its forces to the south, leaving only Ukrainian forced conscripts to slowly withdraw, giving the illusion that UA is fighting Orc troops.
Walking into empty towns is hardly the stuff of a great victory, rather its is merely an Orc concession - albeit temporary, if they can get more troops, even conscripts from a mobilization.
Russia has a lot of troops in the Izyum area they have not committed yet - besides the bulk of the Kyiv forces they are trying to reconstitute.
The big plus, which is never mentioned, is that none of the Orc troops are going to get new equipment - short of cannibalizing them from other units across Russia, they cannot make more because of the sanctions on chips.