Posted on 09/08/2022 7:50:58 AM PDT by Timber Rattler
Ukrainian officials, defending their country against Russian aggressors, began doing something in July that seemed odd, even counterintuitive: They started speaking loudly and regularly about their plans to liberate Kherson—a key southern city that Russia seized only a week after invading Ukraine on February 24. Indeed, the Ukrainians telegraphed their intentions in a way that the Russians could not mistake. This was like waving a red cape at an angry, incompetent bull. Almost immediately, rumors proliferated that the Russians were racing reinforcements to Kherson to prepare for the Ukrainian attack.
Goading the Russians into doing so seems to have been the Ukrainians’ exact goal. Fighting in Kherson plays to Ukrainian strength far more than to the Russians’. Russian occupiers in eastern Ukraine’s Donbas, where the war had been concentrated from April until July, can operate very close to the Russian border, seem to have solidly functional rail lines, and are currently trying to pressure the Ukrainians from two sides at the tip of the fighting around the town of Siversk. Fighting in Kherson, by contrast, nullifies almost all of Russia’s advantages in the Donbas. The Russians are at the edge of their supply lines, while the Ukrainians can maneuver around them. Kherson is deeper into Ukraine than the Donbas, so Russian aircraft have farther to travel to reach the front lines, and that clearly makes them nervous; they prefer to fly mostly over Russia itself or its ally Belarus. Finally, the entire Russian fighting force in Kherson depends for its supplies on just a small number of bridges that span the wide Dnipro River. In recent weeks, the Ukrainians have attacked those crossings almost nightly, severely hindering Russia from moving supplies to their hard-pressed troops in Kherson.
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Your full of crap as usual...no surprise.
Was the missile attack on the NATO training center a strategic bombing?
A simple yes or no answer will suffice.
“Was the missile attack on the NATO training center a strategic bombing?”
No, because strategic bombings are done with bombs and strategic bombers, not with missiles. Duh.
An attack with missiles is called a missile strike.
Putin invaded with 175,000 troops and faced about 196,000 Ukrainians.
Not the 1:3 difference you falsely claim.
Putin declared it a special operation, indicating a few weeks.
The bulk of Putin’s offensive is by Russian troops, not dpr or lpr.
Ukrainians have got the Russians to retreat from north of Kyiv and now from the north east and south of the country.
Russia is weakened due to Putin’s ego
“Ukraine’s war strategy”.
So you admit it is a war, eh?
You do realize Putin will not be happy with you writing that
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