Posted on 06/26/2023 6:40:27 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
Ukraine has “de-occupied” 130 square kilometres (50 square miles) of national territory in its southern region since the start of the counter-offensive, real progress but a statement that perhaps underlines recent admissions that things are not moving as quickly as initially hoped.
Kyiv’s deputy defence minister Hanna Maliar put the previous week’s fighting into context in a statement published early Monday morning, saying in Ukraine’s military eastern region of operations the Russian lines had been pushed back one-to-two kilometres (up to a mile-and-a-quarter) in battles pushing eastwards towards Donetsk and Bakhmut. Ukrainian soldiers are now entrenched at the new forward positions and continue to engage with Russian forces, said the minister.
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Compared to World War I's battle of Verdun.
And it only cost them 100 tanks, 300 personnel carriers and 20k troops. Oh, and then they had to pull back when Russia countered.
These reports remind me of the “We are about to catch bin Laden” or the “ISIS is on the run” reports that popped up over and over and over. After the 100th time, they lose credibility.
Hoist the Flag of Gaity over the liberated pile of bricks 😂
The Verdun comparison is dead on.
50 square miles? That’s a square just over 7 miles on a side.
Wow.
Not to start anything, but for seemingly months and months, I see one story after another that contradicts some previous story or claim.
I honestly couldn’t tell you who is winning.
I don’t think they’ve broken through the hardened defenses anywhere.
And Russia controls over 100,000 sq/km, so the Ukes have reclaimed a little more than 1/10 of 1%.
Sad
By comparison, a township in Ohio is 36 square miles. Not much to show for three weeks work.
And the surge in Afghanistan. Peace in our time. Mission Accomplished.
It is impossible to know. I cannot think of a single news source l trust with respect to this war. I do know it is the biggest rat money laundering operation in history
7x7 mile square....phhhttt....grats.
As Ukraine deployed its forces in the southern region to secure a 50-square-mile territory, the Wagner forces shifted their operations to Belarus with the intention of launching an assault on the relatively less fortified capital, Kyiv.
You must have missed the memo. The Ukrainian “counteroffensive” is so yesterday. It failed miserably and was achieved no military objectives. All it accomplished was killing thousands more men who were kidnapped off the streets and from their homes killed. But do not worry 99% of them were straight white men on both sides so the woke lefties don't count them anyway.
The load of crap about civil war in Russia is what all that the war mongering couch potatoes have been latching onto for the last few days. Come to think of it isn't Putin suppose to have died six times over from some kind of medical problems?
I gave up a long time ago.
Sorry for the typos.
IOW, about twice the size of a Walmart Super center parking lot
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