Breaking through any defensive line is like pressing your finger slowly through a 6 mil contractor bag. Trying to punch it will just hurt your hand. It takes a concerted press, until it finally breaks.
That’s not going to happen in a day.
” just hurt your hand.”
It won't take long to find out if we are seeing the
Cassius Clay rope-a-dope or the Joe Fraizer pound-em-down.
....wait .... I think my pop corn is burning ...
"Russian channels say that Ukrainian forces made gains in Luhove today [Thursday, June 8, 2023] and are assaulting near Malaya Tokmachka [Zaporzhia Oblast, east-southeast from Orikhiv] tonight [Thursday - Friday, June 8 - 9] as they did last night." Source:
https://twitter.com/RALee85/status/1666970818130378752
"Ru channels say that the 42nd MRD's 291st and 70th MR Regiments, 22nd and 45th Spetsnaz Brigades, and BARS are defending the area." Source:
https://twitter.com/RALee85/status/1666974433070977025
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Malaya Tokmachka is near the site where Ukraine lost some German Leopard tanks (probables) on Sunday, June 4, 2023, to the south of the right-most blue tank icon in the above map.