[Erik Latranyi]

I think Ukraine will lose its Eastern half to Russia, but the west needs to drag this out.

Another loss for Biden will hurt him in the mid-terms, so the goal is to keep things going until after the election where they can agree to Russia’s demands.

[BobL]

Putin’s email to us this morning noted that some of the inexperienced Ukrainians now fighting are not doing so in a coordinated manner, so his boys are noting incidents of friendly-fire where one group of Ukrainians opens fire and takes out another group of Ukrainians. Pretty scattered so far, he tells us, but they didn’t see their earlier in the war.

[tlozo]

Ukraine will receive units of the NASAMS air defense system from the US, a networked medium to long-range surface-to-air missile defense system.

[Phoenix8]

WW1 was being compared to this conflict yesterday in a discussion in terms of how a small potential war became a world war due to political pacts etc.

Anyway just a coincidence but today is the anniversary of Archduke Ferdinand assassination.

https://www.onthisday.com/people/franz-ferdinand

[mylife]

zelensky is a fool.
if he is not careful he will get the west involved in a euro world war

[1Old Pro]

But talk of ending the war by winter with Ukrainian forces emerging victorious and having regained the ground now lost seems a stretch by any count. That Zelensky talks that talk is understandable but is hardly realistic.

Biden's proxy war is marching Ukrainian soldiers to their death. Biden's open borders are killing people with fentanyl and also killing people encouraged to cross, like the 47 in TX yesterday. This is an outrage. In Winter he will be killing Americans who can't afford to heat their homes.

[walkingdead]

“The UGS needs to…..pull out troops, collapse the salient and withdraw to a more defensible perimeter.“

This would’ve been a wise decision weeks ago when the commanders on scene asked to do this very thing. But now? Well let’s just say “that ship has sailed.”

Honestly I do not know who is making Uke high level war decisions, but they are not very good at it. Pulling back in war time is not always a bad thing….but Uke leaders seem to think it is better to let their forces be surrounded than moving one step back. I often wonder if all the Uke armies are called the 6th.

[SVTCobra03]

Russian Forces 'Increasingly Hollowed Out' in Ukraine—U.K. Intel

https://www.newsweek.com/russia-ukraine-war-putin-troops-hollowed-out-mod-kremenchuk-1719734