Posted on 07/27/2023 7:04:58 PM PDT by Timber Rattler
Ukrainian forces reportedly launched a massive push against Russia's front-lines in the country's southeastern Zaporizhzhia region, threatening Russian positions that had been overseen by a general who was recently fired.
The surge marks a dramatic change in pace for Ukraine's ongoing counteroffensive. For nearly two months, Kyiv's troops were forced to make slow and steady advances to liberate occupied territory as they faced Russia's formidable defensive lines, which include deadly networks of trenches, barbed wire, anti-armor obstacles, and minefields.
Clearing the Russian fortifications — particularly the minefields — has been a painstaking process for Ukraine, which managed to preserve lots of its firepower and combat capabilities, such as heavy armor provided by the US and its NATO allies. But it now seems as though Kyiv has committed significantly more resources into the fight.
Pentagon officials told the New York Times on Wednesday that Ukraine has poured thousands of reinforcements — many who have been trained and outfitted by Western countries — into battle along the Zaporizhzhia axis, which is one of several locations along the several-hundred-miles-long front line where Kyiv is fighting.
The sheer scale of this thrust as reported suggests a main attack has begun, coming after weeks of probing attacks and mineclearing that suggests Ukraine's war commanders think they've found a vulnerable spot in Russia's formidable defenses. The fired Russian general had demanded changes after suffering losses in artillery battles with Ukraine that were crucial to holding their defensive lines.
According to the US officials, Ukraine has expressed a desire to press south toward the occupied city of Melitopol, near the Sea of Azov. Doing so would allow Kyiv's military to split the territory that Russia currently occupies and threaten its hold on the Crimean peninsula.
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War is so much fun, isn’t?!
I can just see you propped in front of the tube swilling Bud Light and rooting for your favorite team!
No one here has ever had ear drums ruptured by a concussion from a bomb....safe to to say.
What?…
Any war is not pretty ...therefore the reason of NO FOOTAGE
the lives lost mean nothing to those that are financing.
Zeepers gonna zeeper.
HUGE waste of US borrowed tax dollars.
This is natural.
MANILA, 1942-1945.
My uncle kept a radio, capable of receiving short wave, in the garden behind bricks. This was extremely illegal, per the Japanese occupation authorities.
He would listen to the signals he managed to receive, and passed on any information. Back in the house they kept a set of maps behind a painted panel, and the family would gather for updates, placing tacks to mark changes in the lines. I understand there was much rejoicing when the Allies took Rome and Paris. In the Pacific it did not update so much.
The radio and the maps were lost when the Japs burned down the house and the neighborhood.
And may I add none of the cheer leading war mongers have ever had PTSD where mental images of people’s head being blown off just won’t go away or have they ever had everything they ever owned blown to hell with a bomb as well as the place they worked no longer existing.
So in their fantasy video game like world, they can just go ahead and tranny-up with a Bud Light, brag about their favorite side in the war and help drag our country into the toilet by cheering for the endless wars.
Meanwhile, the war criminals on Free Republic continue their blather
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