Russia ‘rapidly approaching’ key Ukraine city despite Kursk setback

CNN via Yahoo ^ | August 17th, 2024 | Mariya Knight, CNN

[Mariner]

Russia is “rapidly approaching” a key military hub in eastern Ukraine, a local official has said, as Moscow continues its advances despite Kyiv’s surprise gains in its enemy’s Kursk region.

While Pokrovsk is not a major city – about 60,000 people lived there before the war and many have left since the start of the full-scale invasion – it serves as a key hub for the Ukrainian military thanks to its easy access to Kostiantynivka, another military center.

Ukrainian troops use the road connecting the two to resupply the front lines and evacuate casualties toward Dnipro.

Serhii Dobriak, head of the Pokrovsk city military administration, urged the community there to evacuate without delay.

“The enemy is rapidly approaching the outskirts of Pokrovsk,” he said in a Telegram post on Thursday.

His warning is proof that Moscow has not relented in its attack on other parts of Ukraine, despite Kyiv’s successful incursion across the border over the past week, a major development after two-and-a-half years of open conflict.

[Mariner]

Tell us again about Ukraine's brilliant tactical move in Kursk.

[tsowellfan]

Somebody needs to tell Ukraine where the battlefield is.

[Karl Spooner]

[desertsolitaire]

If the US and its NATO allies were/are truly standing shoulder to shoulder with Ukraine and in it to win it and nothing less, why is Ukraine said to be begging the UK for more of their Storm shadow missiles, etc to be delivered immediately that they may continue this existential fight and not fall back?
Why the slow, maddeningly slow pace of delivering promised weapons’ and support to the point where they arrive too late and in too small a quantity to still help much?

[jdege]

If Russia doesn’t divert troops, Ukraine is going to cut the supply line to Belgorad.

[SaxxonWoods]

Ukraine just lost a lot of soldiers and equipment for land with no strategic value, making things easier for Russia.

[Alter Kaker]

He said this on Thursday? It’s Saturday night in Ukraine. The front has largely stabilized since then. Need some new Putin talking points.

[Alter Kaker]

The Ukrainians are collapsing the entire Russian railroad network and forcing the redeployment of russian troops from Ukraine and creating a political and refugee crisis within Russia and doing so in a militarily defensible region. Seems pretty strategic and sensible to me but whaddya know

[Brilliant]

Russia is moving its B team to Kursk. It outnumbers the Ukrainians 10-1 in some of the eastern battlefields. It’s quite amazing that the Ukrainians have held them off so long.

[Petrosius]

Tell us again about Ukraine's brilliant tactical move in Kursk.

This is a classic situation when one side is advancing in the center and the other is turning the flank. Only time will tell who wins the race.

[Mariner]

Nope.

Ukraine does not have sufficient forces to flank the main Russian force in Donetsk.

[CarolinaReaganFan]

“Pork Roast” is in the oven and will be done in a few weeks.
Nu York and Turrets are going fast.
Constantinovka and Krasnorgorva are on their last legs
update regarding uke losses from mil summary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKg7ed5eLC8

[ransomnote]

In the News/Activism forum, on a thread titled Russia ‘rapidly approaching’ key Ukraine city despite Kursk setback, desertsolitaire wrote:

If the US and its NATO allies were/are truly standing shoulder to shoulder with Ukraine and in it to win it and nothing less, why is Ukraine said to be begging the UK for more of their Storm shadow missiles, etc to be delivered immediately that they may continue this existential fight and not fall back?
Why the slow, maddeningly slow pace of delivering promised weapons’ and support to the point where they arrive too late and in too small a quantity to still help much?

The US has gifted the Ukraine almost 200 billion dollars already -vastly more than the foreign aid it has given any other country, even after many years in Afghanistan. Black ops funds do not have to be approved by Congress, so who knows how much more money we've given them. The Ukrainians have a corruption problem - they've been skimming millions off the aid we gave them. "What has the US done for Ukraine lately?" is not a prudent question to ask Americans who have long since wanted the US out of that NATO proxy war against Putin.

[desertsolitaire]

Thank you. I didn’t mean to carry water for the Ukes sounding ungrateful for all that total aid (in dollars) given, just wondering if we came close to getting all the bang for the bucks out of that aid? Felt like it was parceled out slowly and too little, too late, despite the large aggregate amount.
Maybe that is the normal maximum pace of things and no way to accelerate it but it felt maddeningly slow and the constraints upon its use by the Ukes seemed to ensure nothing but a stalemate at best and a waste of money and arms at worst.