Posted on 05/04/2023 4:51:02 PM PDT by UMCRevMom@aol.com
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04 May: Russians Panic!!! Ukrainians ATTACK IN THE FORGOTTEN DIRECTION | War in Ukraine Explained
Reporting from Ukraine
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5-5-2023 1:30 a.m. EDT
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I am Ukrainian. My country has been invaded by Russia. In this video I will tell you what happened on the four hundred and thirty fifth day of the war.
Day 435: May 04
It is not a secret that the main direction of the Ukrainian counteroffensive is planned to be southern Ukraine. Nonetheless, it is also clear that this is not where the first, second, and maybe even third diverting attack will be conducted. If we look at the map of fights, we can see that almost all engagements are currently taking place around Bakhmut. But as the Battle for Bakhmut is near the end, Ukrainians will likely try to fix this enormous amount of Russian troops in the east and prevent them from relocating their forces to the south. The analysts on both sides are speculating that the next big battle will likely take place a bit north of Bakhmut.
Siversk turned out to be the last stronghold on the line that Russian failed to approach. The key to Ukrainian success here once again lies in clever leveraging of the local geography: as you can see, Ukrainians are controlling the hills, and, on top of that, they are hiding their artillery behind the hills. Conveniently, such positions are not only good for defensive but also offensive efforts. In fact, the tide had already shifted in April as Russians started digging trenches and raising the alarm about the suspiciously high number of Ukrainian tanks in this direction.
The heaviest clashes area taking place between Bilohorivka and Zolotarivka. Bilohorivka has been one of the biggest Russian graveyards already for a year. Last year in May, Russians tried to cross the Siverskyi Donets River and assault this village multiple times. Ukrainian artillery destroyed the Russian assault units every single time, and after a month of effort, this direction was abandoned. Today Russians are attacking not from the north but from the south, but so far, these efforts have been unsuccessful as well. Recently, Russian forces relocated thermobaric artillery systems to this direction and managed to capture an isolated water pumping facility, but this is the furthest they advanced because the main Ukrainian positions are located on the hills.
While Russians are trying to undercut Bilohorivka from the south, Ukrainians are trying to undermine Russian offensive efforts by assaulting their positions near Zolotarivka. For these purposes, Ukrainians relocated their tanks in this direction and started breaching one Russian position after another. The main objective of these attacks was to eliminate the bulge between Vekhnokamianske and Bilohorivka and, ideally, create the same bridgehead between Bilohorivka and Zolotarivka.
Shortly, the Ukrainian 54th Mechanized released a video of how they assaulted Russian positions in the tree lines 2.6 km west of Zolotarivka while being under the fire of anti-tank missiles. After successfully establishing control over all tree lines, the front moved toward the most challenging terrain and the most fortified Russian position – the so-called Cyclops. Ukrainians took time to prepare and conducted storming in several stages. During the first stage, Ukrainians imitated a big attack to force Russians to send their reinforcements. When the drone operator spotted moving Russian forces, Ukrainians disengaged and changed their focus on eliminating this group. During the second stage of the operation, Ukrainians switched from mortars and grenade throwers to artillery and drone strikes. During the third stage of the operation, Ukrainians entered the trenches with no hurdles and started storming the bunker.
In the face of such devastating attacks, Russians started hastily building new strong points in front of Lysychansk. Some analysts estimate the probability of a breakthrough here as very high because Ukrainians are holding the high ground. From here, Ukrainians can open at least 3 lines of attack: toward Lysychansk, the oil refinery, and Berestove. If this series of attacks is successful, Ukrainians open the gate to move down on Soledar and in the rear of the Bakhmut group, which would likely be accompanied by an attack from the south. This would put Russians in an incredibly inconvenient position, as they would either need to leave Bakhmut or relocate even more forces to the east to stabilize the situation. Stabilization of this front would necessarily come at the expense of other fronts, drain the reserves and fix the troops – setting perfect conditions for delivering the main blow.
Good news:
“In the face of such devastating attacks, Russians started hastily building new strong points in front of Lysychansk. Some analysts estimate the probability of a breakthrough here as very high because Ukrainians are holding the high ground. From here, Ukrainians can open at least 3 lines of attack: toward Lysychansk, the oil refinery, and Berestove. If this series of attacks is successful, Ukrainians open the gate to move down on Soledar and in the rear of the Bakhmut group, which would likely be accompanied by an attack from the south. This would put Russians in an incredibly inconvenient position, as they would either need to leave Bakhmut or relocate even more forces to the east to stabilize the situation. Stabilization of this front would necessarily come at the expense of other fronts, drain the reserves and fix the troops – setting perfect conditions for delivering the main blow.”
May it continue...
And now, from the NTSA / Baghdad Bob desk:
That’s between Theykraine and Wekraine.
“Good news”
Thank you so much for your comment :)
Stop with the gibberish posts!
Is this guy. Jewish uke or dissident Russian
Jewish affection for Ukraine is perplexing for me considering uke civilian behavior in the holocaust
Arguably second only to Lithuania and Croatia in its ferocity amongst occupied axis nations
Maybe it’s pale and pogrom resentments
UKRAINE HISTORY SUMMATION
“The surprise German invasion of the U.S.S.R. began on June 22, 1941. The Soviets, during their hasty retreat, shot their political prisoners and, whenever possible, evacuated personnel, dismantled and removed industrial plants, and conducted a scorched-earth policy—blowing up buildings and installations, destroying crops and food reserves, and flooding mines. Almost four million people were evacuated east of the Urals for the duration of the war. The Germans moved swiftly, however, and by the end of November VIRTUALLY ALL OF UKRAINE WAS UNDER NAZI CONTROL.
https://www.britannica.com/place/Ukraine/The-Nazi-occupation-of-Soviet-Ukraine
Initially, the Germans were greeted as liberators by SOME of the Ukrainian populace. In Galicia especially, there had long been a widespread belief that Germany, as the avowed enemy of Poland and the U.S.S.R., was the Ukrainians’ natural ally for the attainment of their independence.
The illusion was quickly shattered.
In the occupied territories, the Nazis sought to implement their “racial” policies. In the fall of 1941 began the mass killings of Jews that continued through 1944. An estimated 1.5 million Ukrainian Jews perished, and over 800,000 were displaced to the east; at Baby Yar (Ukrainian: Babyn Yar) in Kyiv, nearly 34,000 were killed in just the first two days of massacre in the city. [See also Holocaust: The Einsatzgruppen.]
In the Reichskommissariat, ruthlessly administered by Erich Koch, Ukrainians were slated for servitude. The collective farms, whose dissolution was the fervent hope of the peasantry, were left intact, industry was allowed to deteriorate, and the cities were deprived of foodstuffs as all available resources were directed to support the German war effort. Some 2.2 million people were taken from Ukraine to Germany as slave labourers (Ostarbeiter, or “eastern workers”). Cultural activities were repressed, and education was limited to the elementary level.
Under such conditions of brutality, Ukrainian political activity, predicated originally on cooperation with the Germans, increasingly turned to underground organizational work and resistance. The OUN groups that streamed eastward in 1941 were soon subjected by the German authorities to repressive measures, including execution, so they propagated their nationalist views clandestinely and, through their contact with the local population, began to revise their ideology in a more democratic, pluralist direction.”
MORE HISTORY
Ukraine rates the 4th in the number of people recognized as “Righteous Among the Nations” for saving Jews during the Holocaust.
The history of the Jews in Ukraine goes back over a thousand years. Jewish communities have existed in the territory of Ukraine from the time of the Kievan Rus’ (late 9th to mid-13th century). Some of the most important Jewish religious and cultural movements, from Hasidism to Zionism, rose either fully or to an extensive degree in the territory of modern Ukraine. According to the World Jewish Congress, the Jewish community in Ukraine constitutes the third-largest in Europe and the fifth-largest in the world.
In the Ukrainian People’s Republic (1917-1920), Yiddish was declared a state language, along with Ukrainian and Russian. At that time, the Jewish National Union was created and the community was granted an autonomous status. Yiddish was used on Ukrainian currency in this same period, between 1917 and 1920.[12] Before World War II, slightly less than one-third of Ukraine’s urban population consisted of Jews; they were the largest national minority in Ukraine.
Total civilian losses during World War II and the German occupation of Ukraine are estimated at seven million. More than one million Jews were shot and killed by the Einsatzgruppen [paramilitary death squads of Nazi Germany that were responsible for mass-murder, primarily by shooting, during World War II (1939–1945) in German-occupied Europe.]
As ordered by Nazi leader Adolf Hitler, the Wehrmacht cooperated with the Einsatzgruppen, providing logistical support for their operations, and participated in the mass murders. Historian Raul Hilberg estimates that between 1941 and 1945 the Einsatzgruppen, related agencies, and foreign auxiliary personnel murdered more than two million people, including 1.3 million of the 5.5 to 6 million Jews murdered during the Holocaust.
After the close of World War II, 24 senior leaders of the Einsatzgruppen were prosecuted in the Einsatzgruppen trial in 1947–48, charged with crimes against humanity and war crimes.
that should make you ask yourself whether they are really Nazis today as the Kremlin propaganda tries to portray them
Note also that your statement is incorrect -- I've not seen any poll asking "all Jews" - so we can't say "Jewish affection" is there for either side
What is factual is that
I can speak for the Poles I meet -- don't forget that the Ukrainians were pretty beastly to Poles as well
Until 2014, the Polish population's approach was "a pox on both your houses"
That remained true until 2022 and the second invasion -- Poles today are on a spectrum:
The Ukrainians of today are not their great-grandfathers. They are not the anti-semitic and anti-polish murderers their grandfathers were, so judging them by the sins of their ancestors is just wrong - judge them by their actions today and judging them by their actions today is why Jews in Ukraine and Israel in general seem to support Ukraine)
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