Posted on 09/10/2022 12:04:47 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
Russian troops are pulling back from key areas in Ukraine’s Kharkiv region as Ukrainian soldiers advance, following a major counteroffensive that was launched on Sept. 1.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy championed troop success on the front lines in the north and said that some 30 settlements had been "liberated" from Russian occupation during his nightly address Friday.
Russia state-owned media outlet Tass announced Saturday that Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov said troops would being "regrouped" from areas around Balakliya and Izyum to the Donetsk region, though Fox News Digital could not locate the report, suggesting it may have been removed from the site.
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In short, the Ukrainian advance has been too slow and lacks a clear path to reach operational objectives. Already, Russia has begun to deploy huge reserves to this theater, and fear is beginning to show among the more operationally aware Ukrainians. One Ukrainian journalist at the front had this to say:
“There is heavy fighting near Kupyansk, worse than Balakleysky. We are taking heavy losses. The enemy is transferring a bunch of reserves by air. The “Wagnerites” have already arrived in the city itself. The sky is filled with aircraft. Hearing about all this, a haunting feeling of an ambush arises in the soul. What if this all really turns out to be a strategic level ambush?”
I do not believe this is an “ambush” per se by the Russian army. The word ambush implies that the Russian forces were already in position, drawing the Ukrainians into a specific maneuver plan where they could be attacked from prepared positions. That’s not what’s happening at all - Russian forces are coming in fresh from reserve and were not pre-deployed to the sector. What the operation reflects instead is Russia’s preference to wage a high-firepower, mobile defense. Frontline positions are, relatively speaking, thinly manned, which powerful mobile reserves are held back. This is a flexible, firefighting approach which allows the Ukrainians to advance into vulnerable positions so that they can be destroyed.
For Ukraine, one of the basic problems is that Russia has such an enormous advantage in firepower - aircraft, tube artillery, rocketry, and tanks - that any offensive must reach operational depth quickly in order to disrupt Russia’s ability to bring this firepower to bear. In the Izyum sector, this simply isn’t possible.
Lacking the ability to operationally compromise Russian forces here, Ukraine will find itself in a good old fashioned shootout against an enemy with vastly superior firepower - not only that, but it is in fact Ukraine that now faces operational complications, having blasted their way into a salient with no prospects for crossing the Oskil in force and exploiting.
oh stop your childish bullcrap when you don’t know a damn thing.
You all prattled on how Ukraine must be failing because they weren’t releasing any reports, and they surprised everyone with an offensive in the East.
Unlike you Pro Putin geniuses I don’t predict outcomes, but at the moment the Russians were caught by surprise and are regrouping or retreating.
Having their asses kicked by a homo cross dresser clown, according to you know it alls.
Not that I believe the UN/Ukraine side is all that honest but this place was filled with articles not more than a few days ago by ‘unconcerned neutral Freepers who are not proPutin at all and only wanted America to stay out’. Claiming that the Ukraine counterattack had been annihilated and they were teetering on collapse and now all of a sudden the narrative switches to ‘oh the annihilation hasn’t happened yet but we’re just lulling them into the big smackdown?’ Do you think people here have as short a memory as the guys who consume MSM?
You need to put down the crack pipe and learn how to read a map Berlin_Freeper. This is a disaster for the Russians. They are on the run and abandoning their heavy equipment. Izyum is lost, the rail line supplying it is cut, everyone has to scramble to get out before they wind up in Ukrainian POW camps. Don’t get me wrong this war is not over but this is a major strategic setback not just a tactical setback.
Just shut up you dam scum
Its a “regrouping”.
The USSR withdrew from Afghanistan and “regrouped” across the border in 1989.
The war is lost. This is turning out be like Russo-Japanese war over 100 years ago. Putin needs to negiotate for peace so at least he gets to keep Donetsk and Luhansk plus Crimea. At this rate, he’ll lose it all. It will be the end of his regime in Russia. Time to cut his losses.
Isn’t Berlin_Freeper on Ukraine’s side?
Did I miss something?
It cost a hell of a lot more lives for the Russians to take the Izium sector initially then it apparently has caused the Ukrainians to recover it. That is not an equation that works out to the benefit of Russia.
Nice post No. 4. You could get whiplash trying to follow how fast those guys have reversed their own narrative.
“If the Russians had the overwhelming mobile mech reserves that Kazan claims”
IMHO, if that was true, Russia would have already defeated the Ukraine.
This comes at a really bad time for Putin's effort to raise additional troops. People who might be willing to support a greater commitment to reinforce successes, in the hope that they might bring victories soon, might be a lot less willing to support reinforcing defeat. And on the flip side, this success is likely to do wonders to get others to support the Ukrainian effort.
I don't think the Ukrainians have the military ability to throw the Russians completely out of the country, but any hope of Russia forcing Ukraine to the negotiating table under unfavorable conditions anytime in the near future may have just vanished.
A wild turn of events.
Apparently, the Russian regular military went AWOL in this sector. They bugged out at the first whiff of powder and left lightly armed militia, Quislings, etc., to fight their war. Everyone can see it on social media. Morale will be devastated.
Ukraine only has a couple hundred tanks and I’ve seen little video of their use here. This advance has been mostly conducted by light forces. Many of the battlefield videos are of Ukrainian soldiers around pickups.
The Ukrainians have consistently had motivated soldiers but lacked heavy weapons. The West has supplied some of that, but the Russians still have more.
I wonder if the Russians have just ended up supplying the Ukrainians with the heavy weapons and ammunition they’ve needed.
Anyone with actual military planning experience knew the Russian military was in trouble when they were routed north of Kiev. Its performance in Ukraine has been shockingly bad at almost every level. This is the rough equivalent of Hitler’s army being pushed out of Poland…by the Polish army. Again, anyone with actual military planning experience knows this and is stunned by the ineptitude of Russian military leadership. Putin’s days are extremely numbered.
Kazan “Ukrainian advance has been too slow”
Heh hey. Too slow? You Russians were running out as fast as you could
“Having their asses kicked by a homo cross dresser clown, according to you know it alls.”
I know, I will never let that down....
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