Posted on 06/10/2024 7:38:53 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
Ukraine attacked several advanced Russian air-defense systems across Crimea overnight, Kyiv's military said on Monday, in the latest round of long-range strikes to menace vital Russian assets on the annexed peninsula Ukraine has vowed to reclaim from Moscow.
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Rybar, one of the influential Russian military blogger accounts often used as sources in lieu of official statements from Moscow, said on Monday that Ukrainian forces had attacked Crimea overnight with "at least 12" U.S.-supplied Army Tactical Missile System (ATACMS) missiles, fired from Ukraine's southern Mykolaiv region.
Another prominent military blogger said Kyiv had attacked Crimea with an unspecified number of ATACMS. Independent Russian outlet Astra reported "at least 10" ATACMS missiles were fired, damaging two S-300 systems and four radars across the peninsula.
Four missiles struck Dzhankoy and a further four hit around the Saky air base, Astra reported. The air base, which Ukraine has previously attacked, is just southeast of Yevpatoria. Two missiles struck close to Hromove, a village south of Chornomorske in the west of the peninsula, according to the Astra account.
Local social media channels in Crimea reported explosions overnight, including around Dzhankoy and Yevpatoria.
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Look at a map lately?
By Ronald Popeski June 9, 2024
2:58 PM CDT
Updated 21 hours ago
June 9 (Reuters) - Russian forces appear to be making headway towards their longstanding goal of capturing the strategic Ukrainian town of Chasiv Yar, according to reports on Sunday from both sides of the more than two-year-old conflict.Chasiv Yar stands on high ground about 20 km (12 miles) to the west of Bakhmut, a town Russian forces seized a year ago after months of battles that flattened nearly all its buildings. It is seen by both sides as a potential staging point for Russia to advance on the key cities of Kramatorsk and Sloviansk.
Ukrainian media outlet Ukrainska Pravda quoted a military source and a blogger as saying that Russian forces had begun occupying a district of the town alongside a canal.
"Over the past week, there have been more than 1,500 instances of shelling of the outskirts of Chasiv Yar from the north to the south," it quoted its source as saying. The source said Russian troops were using guided aerial bombs to clear areas along a major road "and with the support of multiple long-range missiles and...drones they have begun to move forward and build up their forces".
What “Admiral Levchenko” doink? Lol!
bkmk
Usually when a country is attacked, loses territory, and the war eventually ends and they are in a much smaller country with a massively smaller population, much more poverty, a broken electrical system, no economy, and a huge demographic gap where the fighting age men used to be that's considered "losing".
Are you prepared to admit that's what happened when it inevitably does?
But I think Putin did break the rules by invading Ukraine and so, for him, it will be like with Saddam Hussein’s or Hitler’s initially successful wars against their neighbors.
There came a point when Fate’s tide inevitably turned against them and their armies were sent back home, basically returned to sender with postage due, right?
I get a sense that is Putin’s reality now, too.
His strength got him this far, but it’s not enough to swim against the tide that’s now turning against him and will eventually and inevitably take him where he doesn’t want to go.
I’m not making fun of the way Russians speak. Honest!
Thank you Vladimir for your neutral input.
“His strength got him this far, but it’s not enough to swim against the tide that’s now turning against him and will eventually and inevitably take him where he doesn’t want to go.”
What army is going to do that? I’d guess you’re a proud nationalist, but the harsh reality is Ukraine doesn’t have the strength to drive the Russians out.
Maybe, maybe not … we’ll just have to wait and see.
“Maybe, maybe not … we’ll just have to wait and see.’
There is a saying: “Hope is not a strategy”. Whatever you’re waiting for, NATO intervention or Russia quitting, they’re slowly grinding the UA down. That’s the harsh reality. Ukraine’s best bet is peace negotiations.
With regard to Putin’s war against Ukraine? It seems to be a mutual sort of grinding down, as the meat grinder works both ways, but is traditionally hungrier for the aggressors, and especially so for the Russians, given their tactics.
The Russian casualties and equipment lost counts are insane day after day. No nation can sustain that kind of loss for very long, not even Russia.
Since the beginning of Putin’s war, most predictions about when and how Putin’s war would end have been wrong, so … I guess we’ll just have to wait who has to quit first.
Ukraine mortal reasons to fight and has friends lining up with support for Ukraine. But reasons for Russia’s fighting? Not so much. Ego and greed? Territorial conquest? No honor there. That’s Satan’s stuff.
Good luck with that.
Rybar, one of the influential Russian military blogger accounts often used as sources in lieu of official statements from Moscow, said on Monday that Ukrainian forces had attacked Crimea overnight with "at least 12" U.S.-supplied Army Tactical Missile System (ATACMS) missiles, fired from Ukraine's southern Mykolaiv region.
Ukraine gets ATACMS and attacks Crimea. It would almost make one think there was a Crimean front. Or that Ukraine had nothing better to do with their free ATACMS missiles.
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