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Posted on 08/24/2025 12:06:56 PM PDT by marcusmaximus
On Aug 11, Russian soldiers breached Ukraine’s front-line defences and penetrated at least six miles behind enemy lines.
Battlefield maps, kept studiously up to date by open-source intelligence groups, showed a red tendril reaching north into Ukraine’s territory through several villages in the contested eastern Donetsk region coveted by Vladimir Putin, the Russian president.
The advance set off alarm bells among Kyiv’s supporters, who feared it marked the start of an offensive aimed at the stronghold city of Kostiantynivka or the logistical hub of Pokrovsk, both of which could provide Russia with a foothold in Ukraine’s fortress belt.
What Russian soldiers did not know was that Ukrainian forces had discovered the attack before the mission even began. In response, on Aug 12, Ukrainian forces began what Ukraine’s General Staff euphemistically referred to as “active measures”.
Within days of the offensive, Russian soldiers found themselves surrounded by the Azov Corps, one of Ukraine’s elite forces. The incursion, one of the deepest since the shift to attritional warfare, quickly became a costly and deadly failure.
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This grim Russian tactic has become a feature of the war as Moscow probes for weaknesses in Ukraine’s defences. Small groups of Russian soldiers are sent forward on motorcycles, dirt bikes and electric scooters without support to break through Ukrainian lines at speed
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What Dymytrov doink?
Interesting. None of America’s business.
Azov’s Global Humiliation – Entire Pokrovsk Front Shattered as Two Brigades Vanish
Gosh!
It sounds like the same exact place where the "stunning AFU victory" happened. Same troops, too.😂😂😂
"The incursion, one of the deepest since the shift to attritional warfare" - sounds like the Spamkrainian propagandists are a little behind the times, and are trying to sell the idea that the Ukies shifted to attritional warfare.
1.7 million Ukrainian soldiers can't be wrong!
Sorry, I meant 30,000 Ukrainian soldiers.
Your Putin has minus ten days to get with the program!
The putative political future President doesn’t have much to say does he?
If he gets nominated instead of Vivek (I’m still rooting for Vivek) he’s vulnerable to Newsome and if he gets by Newsome to the Presidency, I’ll be surprised if he lasts more than four years. Why?
Because he seems like a visionless politician like GHW Bush after Reagan. The only successful Republican Presidents who weren’t RINO’s in the last 75 years were visionary Patriot Reagan and visionary Patriot Trump.
Otherwise, the Left and the Dems eats them for lunch.
Putin claims Ukraine should give up Donetsk because Russia will conquer region by October
Russian leader Vladimir Putin reportedly told President Trump his forces could conquer the long-sought-after Donetsk region by October if Ukraine didn’t give up the land as part of a peace deal
Wrong thread?
If Putin wants Zelensky to give up the "fortress belt" in the Donbass, he'll have to agree to the security guarantees.
What Dymytrov doink?
When Putin’s military is exhausted then he’ll have to agree to the security guarantees.
I will gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today.
Ukraine is adapting to the drone warfare so they will become less dependent on manpower.
And ponies and candy for EVERYONE!!!
If Americans want to make it their business, they are free to. Why are you even reading and committing on this article if it is none of Americas business. Seems that you are making it your business.
Sarcasm does not help your side/
Russia, Red China, North Korea, Iran, look at our military budget and our military and you see see that those countries are very much a focus of “America’s business”.
The Russian advance was ridiculous. It was a long, narrow salient into enemy territory, something no competent general would ever try. The Ukrainian leaders laughed, and cut it off in three places.
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