Posted on 12/31/2024 7:24:27 AM PST by marcusmaximus
Something struck a group of Russian troops in Lgov, a town of 21,000 in western Russia’s Kursk Oblast, late Sunday or early Monday. “It’s terrible,” a bystander cried. “The guys are all in the bunker,” they added as the bunker burned.
A Ukrainian official insinuated the fire was the result of a Ukrainian raid, which would make sense. Lgov lies just 30 miles north of the town of Sudzha, the anchor of the 250-square-mile salient that Ukrainian forces carved out of Kursk back in August. It’s a key road and rail node for troops and supplies supporting the two-month-old Russian counteroffensive in Kursk.
The Ukrainians have targeted Lgov before, most notably on Christmas Day, when Ukrainian munitions—possibly from American-made High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems launchers—blew up a headquarters belonging to the 810th Naval Infantry Brigade, one of the lead units for the Russian counteroffensive.
That attack—a “fiery impression,” according to the Ukrainian Center for Strategic Communications—came just days before the Kremlin pulled the battered 810th Naval Infantry Brigade off the front line in order to replenish its losses.
Ukrainian strikes on Lgov help to explain why 50,000 or more Russians along with 12,000 North Korean reinforcements haven’t yet been able to eject 20,000 Ukrainians from Kursk, despite relentlessly attacking the Ukrainian salient from all sides for two months. Russia “is still battling on its own territory and has been unable to drive Ukraine out of Kursk Oblast,” Finnish analyst Joni Askola noted. “It's quite pathetic!”
But the Russians’ failures in Kursk aren’t just the result of their own incompetence. These failures are also the consequence of a successful campaign of deep strikes by Ukrainian forces.
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Are you sure you responded to the right comment. This was the comment I made in your question had nothing to do with it.
Sorry little buddy, the Ukraine is done, stick a fork in it. The only winner in this war is the whoremongers of Europe who have a lot more desperate Ukrainian women and girls to peddle in the flesh trade.
i hope you just have started celebrating New Years a bit early.
i reoall such silly comments being posted two years ago.
Hence my questioning ‘Ukraine is done,stick a fork in it’
How does you comment below deserve an answer? Only a drunk would accuse me of drinking for not responding to your drivel.
When was this written? #14?
two years ago?
when is russia really going to become angry?
“(meaning: any honest, obvious question).”
Who writes this crap? It is just like 80% of FR replies. It is about just hitting the send button without previewing the post.
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