Posted on 07/22/2023 11:01:19 AM PDT by Mariner
Hopes were high throughout the spring, as a Ukrainian military equipped with Western weapons prepared to launch a counteroffensive that would reclaim land seized by Russia, which had invaded its much smaller neighbor for the second time in early 2022.
“We are getting ready for the counteroffensive, so that we can finally end this war,” one Ukrainian soldier said in late May. The counteroffensive began about three weeks later, with Ukraine making initial gains in Donetsk and Luhansk, two regions in eastern Ukraine that were illegally annexed by Russia last year.
Since then, however, the pace of progress has slowed considerably, leading to some frustration from Ukraine’s backers in the West, who hoped that the heavy weaponry and training they had provided would drive the Russian occupiers out of the country’s southeastern provinces.
So far, however, Russia’s defensive positions appear to be holding — while questions about the future of the conflict are growing.
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Since the losses of the counteroffensive’s first several weeks, the Ukrainians have settled for using long-range artillery, which doesn’t expose troops or vehicles to Russian fire. That shift has left both sides at a standstill, a dynamic that favors Russia.
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Should the counteroffensive fail, aborted efforts to broker peace via diplomacy could be revived. Friedman of Defense Priorities told Yahoo News that a “stalemate might lead to major political movement, such as a reopening of talks.”
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Video: Ukrainian artillery clears Russian trenches of invaders. At the end of the video cluster munitions are raining down on the Russian position.
https://twitter.com/worldonalert/status/1682808087923642369
Hopium is a helluva drug marxistmaxumus.
“At the end of the video cluster munitions are raining down on the Russian position.”
Correct, Russia was waiting for Ukraine to use them first...
Who cares?
Versus anecdotes about that one Ukie artillery shell that did that one thing you hear about in the Western [Leftern] Media.
There’s a Freeper who posts equipment losses for both sides he somehow has access to. According to his latest figures the Ukes’ counteroffensive is mauling them. Since 6/5 the Ukes have overwhelmingly destroyed more tanks (146-65) and artillery (81-30). Can we get these figures to Putin so he’d know to surrender?
They obviously only need more US tax dollars to run through the laundry.
Faltering, my azz. It has failed.
You would have said the Germans would win the battle of Berlin..April, ‘45.
It failed while Biden kept telling us Putin is coming, while doing nothing for weeks.
He provoked it. “God why is he still alive!”He and Kirby wanted it.
Then they sent billions and no one knows how many or where they are now weapons.
As long as this war lasts they all make money. Then the rebuilding during his next term. More $.
European media have begun (at last) to admit Ukraine’s hopeless position. As if in unison, they’ve also raised the prospect of “territorial concessions.”
the Ukraine has come to be a money pit.
Firstt, for all those supposed-supported Democratic buildings and functions.
Second, all that money the US has been funding the administrative government personnel’s paychecks.
Third, funding this sbort term proxy war with Russia.
“They obviously only need more US tax dollars to run through the laundry”.
That’s it, exactly.
And the evil bastards don’t care one iota how many are being used as cannon fodder.
Myth Romney, Linda Graham, G W MORON, Biden, Pelosi, Soros, neoCONs, and the deep state will be greatly saddened by this news.
“Send more money, and some nukes!” - Fagboy Zelensky
This more like german Kursk offensive WWII
Dictator Zelensky has more money to grift…
Yes. All things considered, the Germans didn’t have a chance.
But the Germans put up a much better fight at Kursk than the Ukrainians are doing now.
Pretty soon the trench digging will begin.
Yeah, well Putin can’t concour Ukraine either so this murdous stalemate continues.
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