Posted on 09/17/2022 3:11:12 PM PDT by Timber Rattler
The front line is now a river, the Oskil, that runs through the middle of the eastern Ukrainian town of Kupiansk. On one side are the charging Ukrainian forces who have pushed their Russian enemies almost entirely out of the northeastern Kharkiv region during a sweeping counteroffensive this month.
From her bedroom window, Liza Udovik, 26, has a view of the other side, to where the Russians have retreated. The sound of outgoing fire from the Ukrainians rocked her apartment these past few days, when the Ukrainian military moved into Kupiansk and the town became a battleground. Russian tanks and armored vehicles still patrol the streets, but it’s the Ukrainians driving them, using the Russians’ own abandoned weapons against them.
Udovik started counting the seconds between hearing the deafening boom of artillery launched and the appearance of smoke in the distance. From just Tuesday to Wednesday, the gap got longer, stretching from 9 seconds to 13.
“They’re getting pushed back,” she said with a smile.
The Oskil became a shield for the Russians on Sept. 9. As the Ukrainians closed in, the invading forces crossed the bridge and blew it up behind them to slow Kyiv’s advance. And Kupiansk was suddenly cut off from its second half. The next morning, 55-year-old Lena Danilova stared in confusion at the Ukrainian vehicles driving down the town’s streets. A man next to her tugged on her sleeve, pointing out the different uniforms on the soldiers now patrolling the area.
“Look, these are our boys,” he whispered to her. Danilova said she wiped away tears of joy.
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“From her bedroom window, Liza Udovik, 26, has a view of the other side, to where the Russians have retreated. The sound of outgoing fire from the Ukrainians rocked her apartment these past few days, when the Ukrainian military moved into Kupiansk and the town became a battleground.”
She must have a good job to afford an apartment with a view.
Ironically many of the most dramatic photos of this sort of thing are of the wreckage of the 44th Soviet division at Suomussalmi. The 44th was a Ukrainian division.
Wait its a trap! Lol!
That’s right. One way for Stalin to be rid of them.
“RUSSIA WILL LOSE THIS TIME FOR SURE”
Said the increasingly nervous neocon for the 400th time this year
Said the increasingly retarded Putinist for the 400th time this year
Fixed your post for you.
In the meantime, the war/conflict goes on....
‘Russia Encircles Bakhmut, Ukraine Offensives at Standstill; Samarkand Putin Meets Xi, Iran Joins SCO’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-gPSrsaR0s
‘Putin May Upgrade SMO to Counter Terror Operation; Modi Says India Russia Friendship Unbreakable’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFAAowWtT6o&t=1088s
‘The U.S. Army is in trouble. The new soldiers are dumber, fatter and less qualified.’
https://sonar21.com/nato-to-hell-with-trip-wire-were-going-forward-defense-and-other-nonsense/
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