Posted on 11/02/2024 9:59:44 AM PDT by thegagline
Ukraine’s defenses in the Donetsk region are continuing to crumble. In the past week alone, the Russians have gained more land than at any point this year.
“The gain of more than 200 square kilometers (77 square miles) adds to territory taken in a grinding summer offensive that’s involved huge losses of Russian troops and equipment,” Bloomberg News reported, citing maps compiled by the DeepState open-source intelligence group’s map service maintained in cooperation with the Ukrainian Defense Ministry. “Russia has captured 1,146 square kilometers in Ukraine since Aug. 6, about a quarter more than in the first seven months of the year.”
The Russians are chewing up large chunks of Donetsk in a move to capture the key logistics hub of Pokrovsk which could lead to a further breakout west toward Dnipropetrovsk and south toward Zaporizhia.
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In addition to increasing the number of its own troops, Russia is seeing an influx of North Korean soldiers. As Lt. Gen. Kyrylo Budanov, head of the Ukrainian Defense Intelligence Directorate (GUR) told us, there are some 12,000 North Korean troops in Russia, a figure that we noted could expand. Of those, about 7,200 are now in Kursk, Budanov told The War Zone on Friday. It is unclear at the moment how many North Korean troops might be sent into Ukraine or if more might be sent to bolster Russia’s fight.
Ukraine too is seeking to quickly bolster its forces.
“A further 160,000 people are to be drafted into the Ukrainian armed forces, which will raise the manning of units to 85%, National Security and Defense Council Secretary Oleksandr Lytvynenko said on Oct. 29 during a session of the Ukrainian parliament,” the Kyiv Independent reported.
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Checking on foreign news sources it doesn’t look good for NATO/Ukraine.
Yeah…that two week war really sucked.
so Ukraine could drone attack the little rocket-man in North Korea
Kyiv in 3 days!
>>doesn’t look good for NATO/Ukraine
Wonderful. Hope this rolls up and gets put away before Trump is forced to fix it. He’s got enough to do fixing this country.
You do know that when you repeat the same phrase over and over again it makes you look like a moron, right?
Good
Keep typing communist comrades, total victory over the decadent western capitalists will soon be achieved.
*wrings hands* There was no way of knowing this would happen</s>
Your Putin squandered the ineptitude of the Dementia Joe administration. A couple dozen bombed out villages “conquered” by Putin in 3 years? lol!
Poor marciemaxipad, the front keeps moving west. Why don’t you volunteer, oh great armchair general!?
So we have constantly been told for over two years, and yet in this time the Ukrainians have held and the Russians have gained militarily insignificant amount of territory. It might be true but the Russian apologists have been crying wolf too many times.
Ukraine government IS decadent...they are NOT capitalists
Kyiv in 3 days! Bring your parade uniforms!
What are you going to do with yourself when the Ukraine seeks peace? Are you going to when Poland, Slovakia, Hungary and Romania take their chunks of Ukrainian territory and Blackrock it’s up the rest?
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