Posted on 03/25/2023 1:20:41 AM PDT by Cronos
The initial upper hand gained by the Russian forces in Bakhmut, the Ukrainian city which Moscow has spent months trying to capture, seems to have fizzled out as Kyiv’s counteroffensive has been successful in stalling the advances made by Kremlin.
On Friday, Ukraine's commander in chief Lt Gen Valerii Zaluzhnyi said in a Facebook post that the situation in the eastern city is “stabilising”.
Acknowledging that the situation on Ukraine's frontlines "is the toughest in the Bakhmut direction”, Lt Gen Zaluzhnyi said that due to the “tremendous efforts” of the Ukrainian forces “we are managing to stabilise the situation".
He posted on the social media network after briefing the UK's Chief of Defence Staff, Admiral Sir Tony Radakin, about the situation in Ukraine.
In recent months, the eastern city has become the centre of the biggest battle between Russia and Ukraine. For Moscow, Bakhmut is a key target in its plans to fully capture the industrialised eastern region of Donbas.
However, the long-drawn-out war yielded little results for the Russian offensive despite losing thousands of troops.
On Thursday, the commander of Ukraine’s ground forces, Oleksandr Syrsky, claimed that Russian forces were "exhausted" near Bakhmut, reports BBC.
He added that Russia is “losing significant strength", though it "has not given up hope of taking Bakhmut at all costs despite losses in manpower and equipment”.
"Very soon we will take advantage of this opportunity, like we did near Kyiv, Kharkiv, Balakliya and Kupiansk," he was quoted as saying, referring to successful Ukrainian counter-offensives last year.
However, despite Ukraine’s assertion that Moscow’s attack was flagging near Bakhmut, the Russian forces launched new assaults in the northern and southern stretches of the front in the Donbas region.
Heavy fighting was reported in the northern sector along a stretch of front running from Lyman to Kupiansk as well as in the south at Avdiivka on the outskirts of the Russian-held city of Donetsk.
(With inputs from agencies)
“On day one, he said that there should be a negotiated agreement to avoid war, because in the end, after months of fighting, thousands killed on both sides, the end will be predictable. Russian will retain Crimea, and gain the Eastern regions of Ukraine.”
What assinine reasoning. “Ok, I think they can win, so let’s give it up this time!” Two years hence, “Well, I thought they’d leave us alone, but I guess they would win, so let’s give them more land!”
“”You have one thing He was inaccurate about the war or limited war then early on with a couple of statements””
You make it sound as though he made an early prediction, it was incorrect, but he has been accurate since that early misjudgment.
As we enter the 14th month of this 2-week war, is there a single month when Macgregor hasn’t said the same thing he was saying the first week? His predictions never change, every month the big crush will finish it.
Whether March of 2022, September, October, November, or December of 2022, or January, February, March of 2023 it is always the same, “this is it”.
I only left out April to August of 2022 because I have never taken the trouble to look at those being late to how big he was among the anti-America/NATO posters, but others can probably supply those predictions or maybe his followers can post them to me.
So Russia is now willing to start a nuclear war when it is invading a country, are you sure of that?
You think rather than call an invasion a failure and bring their forces home they would rather launch nuclear weapons?
The thing is, the Russians aren’t making gains daily. Weekly it is a few feet a week and even that has stalled over the past month.
Russia is currently holding about 15% of Ukraine. This is down from the 27% it controlled on March 15, 2022.
“It was clear at the outset that this was the plan”
Nope. The plan was to decapitate Ukraine by striking at the capital and capturing the President.
A good plan if it had worked. But it didn’t due to flawed Russian logistics, planning and intelligence.
The Russians haven’t gained any ground at all for the past few weeks. Prior to that it took them 8 months to advance 20 miles
That map has remained the same for weeks. The Russian offensive has petered out.
And that offensive took them 8 months to advance 20 miles
The best thing for the world is a limited Russian victory. Then Putin can go home and declare victory.
If the Ukrainians capture Crimea, Putin might be forced to nuke Ukraine.
Forced to start a nuclear war because one of his invasions is not working out?
You seem pretty casual with it all, I doubt that Russia is that eager to start a nuclear war.
Shows the Russians are winning”
You dudes are going down to celebrating taking single streets in a friggin town and that's the peak of your offensive.
MacGregor is a crackpot.
“Not miles of ground but definitely measured in a few hundred yards.”
What a friggin comedy. Soon you will be making a news after taking a single house.
It has been extremely humiliating for the supposedly 2nd most powerful military in the world.
Correct. If I'm Zelensky, I would call for a cease fire. Hopefully, Putin's successor will be reasonable and will return the occupied territories to Ukraine in return for international recognition of Crimea.
“Russia will not give in, as they’ve always done.”
Russia gave in and lost the 1800s Crimea war
Russia gave in to tye Japanese in 1905
Russia gave in and surrendered to imperial Germany in 1917
Russia gave in and lost the Polish Soviet war of 1920
Russia gave in with the Afghanistan war
Dpa war?
It won’t start a nuclear war. Ukraine doesn’t have nukes, they’re not nato, and we’re not gonna get Washington nuked to save Odessa.
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