Posted on 10/04/2022 7:36:00 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
SVIATOHIRSK/KYIV (Reuters) - Ukrainian forces have broken through Russia’s defences in the south of the country while expanding their rapid offensive in the east, seizing back more territory in areas annexed by Moscow and threatening supply lines for Russian troops. Making their biggest breakthrough in the south since the war began, Ukrainian forces recaptured several villages in an advance along the strategic Dnipro River on Monday, Ukrainian officials and a Russian-installed leader in the area said.
The southern breakthrough mirrors recent Ukrainian advances in the east, even as Moscow has tried to raise the stakes by annexing land, ordering mobilisation, and threatening nuclear retaliation.
In a sign Ukraine is building momentum on the eastern front, Reuters saw columns of Ukrainian military vehicles heading on Monday to reinforce rail hub Lyman, retaken at the weekend and a staging post to press into the Donbas region.
President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said Ukraine’s army had seized back towns in a number of areas, without providing details. “New population centres have been liberated in several regions. Heavy fighting is going on on several sectors of the front,” Zelenskiy said in a video address.
Ukrainian troops recaptured the town of Dudchany along the west bank of the Dnipro River, which bisects the country, Vladimir Saldi, the Russian-installed leader in occupied parts of Ukraine’s Kherson province, told Russian state television.
“There are settlements that are occupied by Ukrainian forces,” Saldi said.
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Color this skeptical.
There are videos of Ukrainian troops in liberated towns.
Still skeptical I have seen the effective use of video in DI warfare and psyops.
Does it quality as the “great reset” if Vlad nukes the planet?
Exactly where have those 200,000 new troops "arrived"? You're not claiming that a mobilization that started less than 2 weeks ago has already resulted in 200,000 new troops in Ukraine, are you?
Just read the Russian sources at this point. Even they are acknowledging significant Ukrainian advances in both Donbass and Kherson.
Pretty sure behind the scenes, Vlad knows his life will be measured in minutes if he decides to use nukes.
Depends which ones. Not all of them are on the up nd up. Right now I am dealing with my sources which have been right on.
Which are your sources?
Russian sources like Rybar have been extremely accurate over the last month, and have regularly scooped everyone on the planet.
https://sonar21.com/premonitions-by-helmholtz-smith/
Weariness is visible – three recent American polls show a desire for diplomacy, “less concern” and that Ukraine doesn’t make the list. I’m reminded of a comment by Gonzalo Lira that Russia should just make the war boring to Americans.
The economic effects of the boomeranging sanctions are inexorably tightening in Europe. We’re now hearing about possible bank collapses and reading cheerful pieces on how to keep mold out of cold damp houses. With Nordstream out of contention. no improvement is visible. Time is on Russia’s side. At some point the European population will have had enough. Protests are growing. The overwhelming rejection in the German parliament of increased support for Ukraine points this way.
America is better off but is also feeling the boomerang. Inflation is rising and what will happen to gasoline prices (a huge concern) when they stop draining the Strategic Oil Reserve? And if China dumps a lot of US currency the situation will get worse.
WESTERN ARMS RUNNING OUT
The West is running out of arms to send Ukraine. A CNBC report speaks of America being out of 155mm guns and ammunition (manufacturers are being sought); it has already sent ten years’ production of Javelins! The latest HIMARS “sent” haven’t been built yet.
Similar stories from Europe. The available stock of ex-Soviet equipment is gone – 28 (“modernized” 20 years ago) T55 tanks scrounged from Slovenia are the latest “wonder weapon”.
The West does not have the industrial capacity to sustain modern war. Everything that has been sent to Ukraine so far has been from existing stocks. Western militaries must either start cannibalizing their standing armies or stop. Then what? Western weapons made the September offensive possible.
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PREMONITIONS OF WHAT?
In short, the Western plan is not working. The sanctions cost the West more, it’s running out of weapons to send and there are signs of softening. If Moscow’s plan was to move slowly and wait them out, then it’s working.
One should not rule out the possibility of a negotiated settlement and it may be that NATO realizes in time that it has painted itself into a corner from which that is the only exit. But it’s hard to see, given all the hyperbole, how the West’s present rulers could admit to such an enormous failure. Electoral replacement, while happening, is too slow. And why would Moscow ever trust anything the West says? A unilateral surrender by Kiev is possible but the only way I could see it is if Zelensky were overthrown. Therefore I rate a negotiated ending as not impossible at the moment but of very low probability. But time is on Russia’s side and October’s improbability may be March’s desperate desire.
More likely to me is, to use a World War II analogy, that now that Kiev’s Operation Citadel in the Kursk Salient is petering out, it’s time for a really powerful mechanized offensive accompanied by strikes deep in the rear with no holding back. One must remember that Putin said they hadn’t really started – I think we’re about to see what he meant. And sooner, I would guess, rather than later. I can’t imagine that anyone in Moscow wants this thing still going on next February.
Some arrived, some has surrounded, some died.
—”. Right now I am dealing with my sources which have been right on.”
Odd that you do not have a link for your Russian oracle?
That said.
Recall the old Russian proverb.
“ ... about the two principal newspapers of Russian regime, ‘Pravda’ (the truth) and ‘Izvestia’ (the news):
There is no news in the truth and there is no truth in the news.”
Not reading Russian resources but ours. BTW assumption is the lowest level of knowledge. Remember that.
—”assumption is the lowest level of knowledge”
I take what I can find.
Back to the subject of your oracle.
Please enlighten us with a few of the revelations you have been granted.
Some might say ‘put up or shut up’.
I would suggest that if you have nothing to add, you should be placed on”Double Secret Probation”.
It’s a map and a graphic from a website. So what!
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