Posted on 06/13/2023 4:08:55 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
KURAKHOVE, Ukraine—The Ukrainian 68th Jaeger Brigade spent the past year defending trenches in the country’s east against Russian onslaughts. Last week, they went on the attack.
On Saturday, three platoons from the 68th took the village of Blahodatne from a larger Russian infantry force after a methodical firefight. Men from the Jaeger, used to fighting in fields and hills, said they had trained themselves in house-to-house combat and described using their American-made armored vehicles to blast open a Russian strongpoint. The last Russian defenders ran away through their own minefield. Few made it.
Four of the Jaegers were killed taking Blahodatne, and several were wounded, men from the unit said.
It was one of a string of local victories in this area in the first days of Ukraine’s big offensive. Ukrainian forces, armed with newly delivered Western tanks and armored vehicles, have begun an ambitious, monthslong operation to take back as much as they can of the nearly 20% of their country that Russia currently occupies. The early focus of assaults has been in the Zaporizhzhia and Donetsk regions in the south and east.
The past week’s battles have also highlighted Russian forces’ problem of low morale, according to several Russian soldiers taken prisoner in recent days who spoke to The Wall Street Journal.
“The battles are fierce, but we are moving forward,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said in his nightly address late on Monday. Muddy ground after recent rain is among the difficulties facing troops, he said.
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Well, wouldn’t want the softened ones now, would we?
Goodness that smoke you are blowing up our skirts sure does feel good.
So are these the uber Nazi units or the softer Nazi units? :-D
Reality check:
Ian Miles Cheong
@stillgray
10h
After being bombarded for an entire day with copium claims that the destroyed Ukrainian convoy with western armor was “CGI” or a “deepfake,” here’s some footage on the ground of some of those vehicles.
“M-Chitiri” means “M-4” (carbine)
Destroyed Leopards and Bradleys.
Dead bodies, “Punisher” patches, etc.
https://twitter.com/stillgray/status/1668439458520379392
Reality check #2
Russian Spring | The Ukrainian-NATO Forces Prepares More Attacks. Military Summary For 2023.06.10
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWhoW_zqW8E&ab_channel=MilitarySummary
It’s over, tell Biden to go home.
They just had a squad in east Ukraine roll up to a Russian group and surrender, Bradley and all.
Okay, that completely made me laugh, and I sure did need it.
And what the heck is that? Some kind of transgender GI Joe????
blah blah blah, Once upon a time I respected the WSJ. no longer
Wow… time for the Neocons to DECLARE VICTORY AND GO HOME.
It’s going very well now for the Ukrainians.
And they haven’t even sent in the “cavalry” yet.
What they are doing now is scratching the russian front in many different places at the same time to see where the weakest point is. Once they discover the weak point the Ukrainian military will pour in like a flood.
Many Russians are already fleeing and are being shot by their own as they do that! Have you seen the video?
They are also exploding themselves on their own mines as they run in panic.
Are you talking about the warmongering Russian neocons right?
Those who are right now attacking and invading our Ukrainian allies. They are on the losing side though. They are going nowhere in Ukraine.
Supposedly there are 300,000 Russian troops in Ukraine now. Their objective is to preserve the land bridge to Crimea. Ukraine can reach Sea of Azov then they can reach Crimea and end the war.
Wasting your breath or keystrokes. Neocons, nazis…. The favorite buzz words that no one can define when i ask.
Putin is for Christian values and anti homo…., yet putting those ideals against reality on the ground and their private lives don’t match but that doesn’t matter.
From the beginning it was obvious to me that the only way this war ends is with a change in Russia not just Putin but the public in general. Russians have a very different mindset that goes far deeper than Russian govt officials.
Though Russia is being humiliated on the battlefield and have largely depleted their soviet inheritance, this will become a forever war unless Russians have a major mindset change.
It is hard to get into the average Russian soldiers head so will they eventually break and run is hard to say we don’t understand the situation fully
Seems many fight for money, some maybe for mother Russia, but the idea of being shot if you fail or run is not something we can wrap our heads around.
The great patriotic war images and ideals are often brought up, but this is not a war of liberation, Russia was the aggressor (kind of like the beginning of ww2 and winter war) despite what RT and Putin says. Motivation for the Russian soldier is definitely a mixed bag
Then there is the “everything is fine” with Russian economy. Perhaps the final straw will be when St. Petersburg and Moscow begin to feel the pinch.
The Ukrainians definitely have a hard slog ahead, Russia still has lots of arms and soldiers enough to make it difficult, defensive positions, extensive minefields….will cause many loses. Interesting how a dozen lost vehicles means the war is over for Ukraine but 135 vehicles lost in one battle is a meh.
The Germans in WW1 did not lose until the generals gave up, as unlikely as that may be I think that is the only way this ends
The Russians will lose when the boys from St. Petersburg and Moscow are drafted into the war. Right now, they're staying out of it and Putin is able to draft folks from the hinterlands.
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