Posted on 03/29/2023 10:40:04 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
Ukraine struck a railway depot and knocked out power in the Russian-occupied city of Melitopol deep behind the front line on Wednesday amid growing talk from Kyiv of a counterassault against Russian forces worn out by a failed winter offensive.
Unverified images on the internet showed explosions lighting up the night sky with streaks of contrails in Melitopol, base of the Russian-controlled administration in Zaporizhzhia, one of five Ukrainian provinces Russia claims to have annexed.
Ukraine's exiled mayor of the city confirmed there were explosions there. Russia's state TASS news agency, citing Moscow-installed officials, said a railway depot was damaged and power knocked out to the city and nearby villages.
Melitopol, with a pre-war population of around 150,000, is a railway logisitics hub for Russian forces in southern Ukraine and part of the land bridge linking Russia to the occupied Crimea peninsula.
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Another evacuation flight from Sevastopol Crimea to Russia today.
Meanwhile, Vlad holds four ethnic Russian provinces, Avidivka and Bakmut encircled, the Donbass about liberated. His first stated objective nearly achieved.
Vlad is not giving up his ethnic Russian provinces, get used to it….and the West knows this.
you mean Vladimir Putin, the wanted War Criminal?
So no Zelenskyy counter offensive?
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Is it early April already?
You are the TASS outlet for Free Republic?
Those aren’t “fortifications” dummy, they’re vehicle barriers across an open plain. Good enough to slow down a tank advance so opposing artillery can destroy them.
We saw what happened last fall when the Ukie formations were anniliated trying to take Kherson across an open plain...rinse and repeat.
There you go again with gaslighting lies. KGB Putin has never held the “Russian” [sic] city of Zaporizhia.
Brandon’s handlers and the EU are managing Putin and his Potemkin Russia at this time. Sanctions with loopholes, limited aid to Ukraine, etc. All can be upgraded at any time.
Russia’s best soldiers died in the mud of Ukraine and now its prisoner slaves do likewise. Ukraine has friends and allies. Russia is alone. Other than North Korea and Iran of course. It’s over for Russia and its fellow travellers must understand that.
Yes, we saw Russia’s fake army run away from Ukrainian “farmers and miners” in Kherson. What’s your point?
hey, at least they are calling it Russian territory now. That’s progress.
Russian occupied. Temporarily.
Talk is cheap but the hundreds of armored vehicles and 70000 new troops they are about to introduce for the counter offensive are not talk they are the reason for the talk.
Do you dispute that they are receiving these new armored vehicles and are about to employ these additional troops who have been training overseas?
The Russians withdrew from Kherson after defending it successfully for months. The cost to Ukraine in men and materiel attacking across an open plain was immense. Even Western propaganda outlets reported on this.
Wounded Ukrainian soldiers reveal steep toll of Kherson offensive
What’s your point?
Maybe if you weren't such a ignorant troll you'd understand my point...so let nature take its course.
“Russia is here forever” withdrew from Kherson? Wut? Russia is fake. Time for the Kremlin’s fellow travelers to admit the obvious.
Yes, Zaporizhia was not even majority ethnic Russian in the days of the USSR. Per the last Soviet census.
Russian appointed governor of Zaporizhzhia region Yevgeny Balitsky has evacuated his family to Dubai. He remains in Melitopol.
I would expect significant partisan activity behind the Russian front, as well as raiding parties etc. Not that that adds up to a “counteroffensive” however.
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