Posted on 05/11/2022 8:00:07 PM PDT by 11th_VA
Ukraine’s counteroffensive may have broken Russia’s siege of the strategic city of Kharkiv, in northeast Ukraine.
If true – and if Ukrainian troops can maintain their momentum – then this could outflank and threaten the main Russian offensive in the south. While premature to claim that this is a turning point in the war, it would force the Russian high command to divert forces northwards, and to juggle fighting on multiple fronts.
“The Ukrainian counteroffensive north of Kharkiv City has forced Russian troops onto the defensive and has successfully alleviated artillery pressure on Kharkiv City,” according to the Institute for the Study of War, a Washington-based thinktank that closely monitors the war.
’ “The Ukrainian counteroffensive north of Kharkiv City has forced Russian troops onto the defensive and necessitated reinforcement and replenishment efforts intended to prevent further Ukrainian advances towards the Russian border,” ISW said. Analysts pointed to an announcement by local Kharkiv officials that “artillery pressure against the northeastern suburbs of Kharkiv City has been alleviated, indicating Ukrainian forces have successfully driven Russian forces largely out of artillery range of Kharkiv City.”…
(Excerpt) Read more at forbes.com ...
Granted, they could walk there.
“Ukraine’s counteroffensive may have broken Russia’s siege”
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The first two lines of the article: Ukraine’s counteroffensive may have broken Russia’s siege of the strategic city of Kharkiv...
If true...
Come on Forbes, you can't undercut your own headline like that.
The Ukes need to shell the kr@p out of Rooskie territory east of the border without going over the border.
A 30 seconds over The Kremlin UAV strike would be entertaining.
fake war, zero Fs given
If we had eggs.
Why believe the media when they lied about everything?
“The FR democrats who favor Russia, won’t like hearing that.”
Like the FR fake Zelensjy ass lickers who love child smuggling, money laundering and having the Biden family European ATM called Ukraine.
“freedom fighters’ my ass..
What are you clowns gonna say three weeks from now when Ukraine surrenders?
Stone Soup can be delicious and nutritious.
Does it bother anyone that none of this makes any sense?
They are indeed on the West Bank of the Donets now, within artillery range of the main highway to Izyum. This seems to be the principal logistics route from the nearest Russian railhead to that section of the front. Other routes there from Russian territory are poorer roads or further from railheads or constrained by terrain.
Attacking further East from there would be difficult because it would require an opposed crossing the Donets, which is a challenging problem.
You better be glad you’re not in Ukraine.
Words like that would get you a visit from the SBU.
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It makes perfect sense if you look at the maps.
Russians had previously maintained positions within artillery range of Kharkiv, and extensively bombarded Kharkiv from these. They have also maintained occupation of a buffer zone on the west bank of the Donets east of Kharkiv.
The Russians have either deliberately withrawn from these areas in the last week, doing a fighting retreat, or have been defeated and forced to withraw, as per the Ukrainians. Believe whom you like, the upshot is the Russians are no longer there and the Ukrainians are. This withrawal is an unambiguous benefit to the Ukrainians.
Like Russia doesn’t do the same thing...Get real
Still don’t care.
But I DO care about the 40 billion our idiots sent there, on top of 10 last month, to fund Lockheed, Raytheon, GE...while our border is being over run and we have baby milk shortages.
F Ukraine. F Russia. And especially, FJB and McCarthy.
I’m giving up on Rs. Time to hoard.
Zackly. They lied about Trump, the Covid, the vaccines, and the election. No reason to take their word about the war in Ukraine at face value.
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