Posted on 06/18/2023 1:39:37 PM PDT by delta7
Ukraine said its forces were advancing on several axes in their counteroffensive but were struggling to counter Russian air and artillery superiority hobbling its assaults in the east and south.
Now into its second week, Ukraine’s ambitious attempt to take back Russian-occupied land is proving to be a hard slog against dense minefields and well-prepared defenses. After Ukraine’s first probing attacks yielded mixed results, its forces have mostly paused their advances in recent days as commanders take stock of the past two weeks and analyze ways to punch through Russian lines without taking huge losses.
Russia has taken advantage of its superior air power and Kyiv’s limited air defenses to strike Ukrainian armored columns and stop several attacks, destroying some of the sophisticated Western weaponry Ukraine is fielding.
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Dry up.
revive the Partisan Campaign from WWII
fast sabotage raids, eliminating key Russian infrastructure & people
and there’s nothing Vlady can do about it
Russians have been achieving some astonishing single-day bags of hohos at very little cost to themselves.
People from both sides tell me to just wait, the next counter counteroffensive will result in the definitive victory. It is a stalemated quagmire for both sides. The battles being described in this article are straight out of 1916 or 1952. After this one fails, the Russian counter will be described similarly.
17th month next week
this won’t be over anytime soon
hope Russia is enjoying them sanctions
The Ukie Cheerleaders of Death are saddened.
You are totally a dupe of the Russian warmongers. You could always see that the Russians would use their air force when push came to shove.
Ouch! That's gonna leave a mark!
The counteroffensive is a massive flop, to the surprise of no one who does not get their news from MSM propaganda and Biden’s idiots.
We’ll be enjoying the sanctions also. We’ve sanctioned enough countries that the dollar will lose its reserve currency status.
It showed in Russian losses when they were on the offense.
It is now showing as Ukraine goes on offense.
That takes volunteers, not conscripts you can push forward. And yeah, you can do something about it. Hit yet sponsoring government even harder to induce them to control their minions.
But nice to hear you finally admit they can’t prevail in the battleground.
“hope Russia is enjoying them sanctions”
They seem to be. After all their economy is GROWING and Europe is SHRINKING (by losing access to Russian resources), and that’s the World Bank making the assessment.
Best you stick to your suggestion that Ukraine become nothing more than a terrorist state, like the Palestinians.
“Now into its second week”
Actually now COMPLETING the second week...WSJ cannot even get that right. The Ukes did get a settlement that had been occupied by Russia...but then their boys found Russian flamethrowers on 3 sides there, so a bad day for them.
Hope Europe enjoys buying our natural gas at 4 and 5 times the price. The rest of the BRICs are quite happy to trade with Russia.
The intent is the destruction of our United States, salami slice by salami slice. That's what their Satanic inspiration told them to do.
They will be fine. Went one winter without russian gas already. They didnt freeze as predicted. Surprise surprise. Glad us companies are getting the business instead of the barbarians.
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