MotorCityBuck:
"Russians have been on a slow roil and gaining momentum the last month.
Situation on the front lines...." Ukrainians have fought defensively since last fall, with levels of success depending primarily on ammunition.
- In 2023 Russians fought offensively around Bakhmut and then stopped Ukraine's summer counter-offensive before returning to offense around Avdiivka in the fall.
- In February, 2024, Ukrainians retreated from Avdiivka, due to a lack of ammunition.
- Since February, Russians have pushed their lines about 5 miles west of Avdiivka, with a very recent salient driving around 10 miles northwest of Avdiivka.
Overall, in 2024 year-to-date, Russians seem to have gained around 30 square miles of Ukrainian territory, at a cost estimated around 2,000 vehicles and 60,000 casualties, or roughly 65 vehicles and 2,000 casualties per square mile.
On defense, Ukrainian casualties are said to be one-third of Russia's overall, though one-tenth during Russian "Meat Wave" assaults on prepared Ukrainian defenses.
So, on days when Russians are estimated to suffer over 1,000 casualties in "Meat Wave" assaults, Ukrainians likely suffered around 100.
Ukraine is roughly the size of Texas, and still has around 200,000 square miles under Ukrainian control.
It definitely seems the Russians have moved back to more meat wave attacks. The figure for the 28th is almost 1100. A day or two ago I saw the figure of over 450,000 casualties, and daily death over 1100. I guess a desperate attempt to have “good” figures for Putin’s May 9th extravaganza. I hope Robotyne holds past then. Too bad for Putin’s ego.
Regarding trumpeting by Zeepers to disturb readers, I would not waste time or effort on fighting that. Stick to interesting and informative facts, I really like those. Too bad some people here are so frightened of those facts that they even have to resort to getting informative threads pulled. The more informative threads that get pulled, the more non alligned FReepers get annoyed and stop wanting to support FR. I guess if the Russia crowd is paying more to keep FR solvent, FR will become more and more a RUssian propaganda vehicle, and more true American conservative patriots will cease to be interested in FR. Having enjoyed many items posted here especially at the ping lists I have chosen to be on for the past 18 years, I will be sad to see FR fail.