Posted on 06/29/2025 5:26:19 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
Russia’s summer offensive in Ukraine is faltering just weeks after it began, despite a record number of attacks across multiple fronts.
Data analysis by The Telegraph shows Moscow is on track to break its own record, which was set last month, for offensive operations in June. Yet the sheer volume of assaults has not translated into meaningful breakthroughs on the battlefield.
The offensive – launched in May but planned over the winter – stretches from the northern border regions of Sumy and Kharkiv to the front lines in Donetsk and Dnipropetrovsk, into which Russian forces are attempting to break for the first time.
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In Sumy, Russian forces appear to have stalled entirely. Having re-entered the region in January and intensified their push this spring, Moscow’s troops have failed to make further gains. Instead, Ukraine has recaptured some territory.
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“The Russian offensive has broadly stalled … They have the advantage in manpower and drones but their infantry is very poorly trained, if at all,” a senior Ukrainian NCO, who is fighting in the Kupiansk direction in Donetsk, told The Telegraph.
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“The Russians haven’t taken a city for sometime. They celebrate like Soviet-era wins over these small towns and villages, which don’t have any real strategic value,” said Prof Michael Clarke, a security and defence analyst.
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“Russia’s summer offensive stalls”
Thanks be to God.
May Putins summer offensive continue to stall, until Putin’s invasion of Ukraine ends.
May it be so!
Oh look, yet another “its doom and gloom for Russia” coming from.........coming from.........yet another British paper. Why is it ALWAYS from the British press?
Massive Russian Advance East Of Pokrovsk l Daily Rate Of Russian Advance Increase Significantly
Its the 857 day of Putins invasion of Ukraine by the #2 military in the world and they still haven't established air superiority over Ukraine, something Israel accomplished in 2 days over Iran and Russians are still advancing at a glacial pace, even though Ukraine ran out of men two years ago.
No no no. You don't get to turn this around. The British tabloids made all of the laughable BS claims I outlined above. NONE of them happened. If you find newspapers reporting that the Russians were going to win any day now feel free to point out how they are not credible but we are talking about the British tabloids and their pro Uke propaganda here.
The Russian economy is literally wrecked. It is degenerated into a failed war time economy that lacks the capability to produce what is needed simply because sanctions have curtailed critical items Russia can’t manufacture.
There is fighting still at the front, but in Moscow where critical defense properties are being burned and the banking industry is already failed and on life support, Putin has lost everything.
The West has severely underestimated Putin's willingness to sacrifice his people and army. Most western analysts believe Russia has suffered 1 million casualties.
For Russia with the #2 military in the world, attacking a much smaller neighbor with no navy, and basically no airforce after 857 days, only able to make glacial advances, that is a disaster.
Russian equipment losses are staggering.
There is fighting still at the front, but in Moscow where critical defense properties are being burned and the banking industry is already failed and on life support, Putin has lost everything.
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I think we've heard this all before, Bert...many times.
CBS News: Russia launches largest airstrike since start of the war, Ukraine officials say
Kyiv in 3 days!
Crimea by Christmas!
There is an air of unreality about the Russian “summer offensive,” with small scale attacks generating large losses in Russian infantry in return for minor territorial gains. Russia cannot generate the combat power required for deep offensive operations.
Because the Brits are one of the major instigators of this stupidity, it in their blood historicaly. If stalling equates to taking on average 8 city’s a day on average now, along the whole front, of course it fluctuates. OK! More British Bob propaganda, they are consistent. Keep hip waiters on hand, hold your nose may not hurt either.
Russia entered Ukraine in 2022 and three years later, they haven't bothered to do what they did in WWII, and capture Kiev.
Have any of those zeepers ever considered that after three years of fighting, Russia's goal isn't to take the whole country?
So, to refute the unacceptable truth, you dredge around in Free Republic History to find an inappolicable counter argument.
That is intellectual vapidity
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