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Ukraine live briefing: Kyiv’s counteroffensive won’t reach Russian-occupied city of Melitopol, U.S. predicts
Washington Post ^ | August 18, 2023 | Andrew Jeong, Victoria Bisset and Serhiy Morgunov

Posted on 08/18/2023 11:08:52 AM PDT by Kazan

U.S. intelligence officials don’t expect Ukraine to reach the Russian-occupied city of Melitopol in its counteroffensive, according to people familiar with a classified forecast. Melitopol is at the intersection of two important highways and a railroad line that allow Russia to move troops and supplies from the Crimean Peninsula to other occupied territories in southern Ukraine.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: failedproxywar; nobodysearches; russia; ukraine
Just as many of us and our sources predicted back in June when this counteroffensive started.
1 posted on 08/18/2023 11:08:52 AM PDT by Kazan
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To: Kazan

Lol
It won’t even reach the main Russian defense line


2 posted on 08/18/2023 11:10:21 AM PDT by janetjanet998 (Legacy media including youtube are the enemy of the people and must die)
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To: Kazan

Good news for the people of Melitopol


3 posted on 08/18/2023 11:11:30 AM PDT by silverleaf (Inside Every Progressive Is A Totalitarian Screaming To Get Out” —David Horowitz)
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To: Kazan

Bring on the Spring Offensive. Let’s hope we don’t run out of Ukrainians before then.


4 posted on 08/18/2023 11:12:35 AM PDT by kabar
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To: Kazan
More from the article:

The path to Melitopol is an extremely challenging one, and even recapturing closer cities such as Tokmak will be difficult, said Rob Lee, a military analyst with the Foreign Policy Research Institute.

“Russia has three main defensive lines there and then fortified cities after that,” he said. “It’s not just a question about whether Ukraine can breach one or two of them, but can they breach all three and have enough forces available after taking attrition to achieve something more significant like taking Tokmak or something beyond that.”

The bleak outlook, briefed to some Republicans and Democrats on Capitol Hill, has already prompted a blame game inside closed-door meetings.

5 posted on 08/18/2023 11:12:55 AM PDT by Kazan
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To: Kazan

The next thing that will break the back of Ukraine resistance will be talk of peace from Ukraine’s treacherous, war-monger, deep-state sponsors in DC

Who in Ukraine wants to be the last one to die for Pedo Joe, Hunter and the corrupt deep-state once they have signaled they’re getting tired of their adventure in Ukraine?


6 posted on 08/18/2023 11:13:08 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: Kazan

This is fake Kremlin news propaganda.
Ukraine is completely annihilating Mother Russia! It is not even fair fight.

Da, we go live to Mr. Rogan watching UFC bout for reaction.


7 posted on 08/18/2023 11:43:23 AM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
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The bleak outlook, briefed to some Republicans and Democrats on Capitol Hill, has already prompted a blame game inside closed-door meetings.

It'll be Trumps fault.

8 posted on 08/18/2023 11:44:51 AM PDT by Bounced2X (Boomer - I survived childhood with no bike helmet.)
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To: Kazan

“ U.S. intelligence officials don’t expect Ukraine to reach the Russian-occupied city of Melitopol in its counteroffensive, according to people familiar with a classified forecast….”
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Well, DUHHHHH! We have such incredibly brilliant “intelligence” officials.


9 posted on 08/18/2023 11:45:48 AM PDT by House Atreides (I’m now ULTRA-MAGA. -PRO-MAX’)
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To: Kazan

But, but, but….. the F 16s, the Abrams. If only we can find enough Ukrainian boys to bleed us to December.


10 posted on 08/18/2023 11:46:01 AM PDT by hardspunned (Former DC GOP globalist stooge)
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To: Kazan
A favorite sentence: "The Office of the Director of National Intelligence declined to comment."
11 posted on 08/18/2023 11:48:33 AM PDT by Worldtraveler once upon a time (Degrow government)
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To: PGR88

The heads up was senile corrupted Joe’s narrative, spewed 24/7. Anyone who had any military experience and had spent time in Russia ( like me), knew from day one:

Ukraine 1991-2023 RIP, the quicker the better.


12 posted on 08/18/2023 11:56:35 AM PDT by delta7
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To: hardspunned

if Ukraine gets the F16’s, and they get shot down, I wonder what language the pilot will speak. Because you can bet there will be mercenaries flying them.


13 posted on 08/18/2023 1:20:09 PM PDT by davidb56
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“U.S. intelligence officials”

Now you trust the CIA? LOL


14 posted on 08/18/2023 1:41:00 PM PDT by MeganC (There is nothing feminine about feminism. )
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To: davidb56

I wonder how many US special forces, CIA, DIA, etc. have been killed already. The in country advisors on these US systems are mostly American. The Ruskies regularly hit various Uke technical, artillery and command outposts with devastating results. Quite obviously, some American advisors have had the misfortune of being at the wrong Uke place at the wrong Uke time.


15 posted on 08/18/2023 2:01:51 PM PDT by hardspunned (Former DC GOP globalist stooge)
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To: MeganC
The CIA is the organization that fomented the illegal coup that is root cause of this war.

Why on earth would the CIA come up with intelligence that is biased in favor of Russia?

You're grasping at straws, Megan.

16 posted on 08/18/2023 3:30:39 PM PDT by Kazan
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To: hardspunned

A friend mentioned that there is quite a lot of Polish “volunteers” there too. Probably the majority of foreign troops.


17 posted on 08/18/2023 5:06:29 PM PDT by davidb56
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