“They just cut supply lines and keep moving.”
Take a page right out of Patton’s playbook. Surround and then bypass. Leave the defenders to starve and freeze. In about a week they’ll turn on their officers and surrender en masse.
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The pro-Russians often point this out, when Ukraine makes large gains on the battlefield, that the Russians weren’t defeated, they just withdrew. Exactly, that’s how it works.
For those paying attention, this war has been a real education as this has been a logistics war, maybe all wars are. They fight crossroads to crossroads trying to assure their own supply lines and cut their opponent’s supply lines. The Ukes in particular, since they lack the sheer volume of artillery, have focused on supply depots. A lot of what we see reflects what each army has to work with. The Russians have, or had, large numbers of old fashioned cannons and almost infinite ammunition for them, use large-scale cannon barrages to turn enemy targets to dust. The Ukrainians lack those numbers, but have a few precision weapons which they use for effect going after supplies. It’s interesting.