Posted on 07/17/2023 6:07:12 PM PDT by Mariner
Ukrainian military leaders say they are increasingly concerned about a potential Russian push through Kharkiv Oblast that could imperil its own counteroffensive.
"In the Lyman and Kupiansk direction, the enemy has concentrated a very powerful force - more than 100,000 personnel, more than 900 tanks, more than 555 artillery systems, 370 self-propelled guns,” Serhii Cherevatyi, spokesperson for the Eastern Grouping of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, said during the nightly official newscast, the official state Ukrinform news agency reported Monday.
By comparison, Cherevatyi noted, “the largest number of Soviet troops in Afghanistan was 120,000."
The 100,000 troop number is bewilderingly large. While we cannot confirm it, even a significant portion of that figure would be highly concerning.
The Russians “are concentrating everything in order to break through our defenses” the spokesman said. “Our soldiers are on the defensive. They don't allow the enemy to finally seize the initiative. That's why they hit them constantly.”
“The operational situation in the Eastern direction remains difficult,” Commander of the Ground Forces of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, Colonel-General Oleksandr Syrskyi, said Monday, according to the Military Media Center Telegram channel. “In order to stop the offensive actions of our troops in the area of Bakhmut, the enemy is actively transferring additional forces and means to this direction, [including some] airborne troops.”
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However, it appears Russia is going to take a real run at Kharkiv. If they get within artillery range, or even approach it, Kiev MUST redirect the bulk of its smaller forces to the north.
Putin is dead and Russia is out of equipment and ammo.
Just two more weeks...
Sounds like a good time to use cluster bombs on the Orcs.
My arm chair quarterbacking tells me that the Ukrainians should focus more on the destruction of the Russian military forces and be less concerned about recapturing territory.
Forward Ivan, shovels and hammers ready!
And make it uninhabitable for 20 years.
Ukraine cannot deliver ANY bombs.
To use their cluster munitions they have to be in artillery range (<20 miles).
“Ukraine cannot deliver ANY bombs.”
Tell that to the crew fixing the Kerch Bridge.
They can deliver JDAMs, and have done so.
And the Russians have done something like that as well. There are parts of the front where toss-bombing isn’t too unsafe.
Meanwhile, the Satanic Biden regime sits back and laughs at the sight of Ukrainians and Russians killing each other.
If only the Slavs could make peace and focus on killing democrats instead. /spit
Those were kamakazi drones.
Ukrainian aircraft, what remains of them, must stay well inside the Ukrainian controlled areas. They haven’t delivered an actual bomb in months.
If that made places uninhabitable then Kharkiv the city would be already. The Russians fired thousands of 220mm Uragan rockets at it, mostly cluster munitions.
They were delivering JDAMs a couple of weeks ago.
citation?
Warmongers that have no skin in the game don’t care.
Should be read as the province of Kharkiv. Proximate objectives would be Kupiansk, Lyman, etc. Kharkiv itself is quite far.
>Tell that to the crew fixing the Kerch Bridge.
They only did that to jam up traffic so they could attack the south again and hopefully get a village with all the supply roads now jammed up.
If Russia takes Kharkiv, Zelensky better fly to Miami and get a Ring doorbell installed pronto.
https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/mig-29-fulcrums-are-ukraines-jdam-er-bomb-trucks
There are others, look it up.
About as much chance of that as Ukraine taking Rostov.
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