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- The Russian Army reportedly captured the villages of Ternova and Peremoha;
- The Russian Army reportedly captured the villages of Shestakove and Fedorovka village;
- Ukrainian positions in Udy, Slatino, Dergachy, Tsirkuny and Alexandrovka are shelled by Russian artillery;
- The AFU attempt to cross the Seversky Donets River near the village of Hotomlya to attack Russian positions on the left bank of the Pechenezhskoe reservoir.
The biggest mistake of this war is not taking Kharkov in the first couple of days.
Russia’s early strategy baffles most. In terms of Kharkov, like other cities, Russia seemed to swing by, see if they could walk in with light forces, and see how it goes. When they saw they could get into long drawn out street battles in what were areas not aligned with their stated territorial goals – they walked away. The exception was where taking extra territory was a breeze like Kherson. You could almost call it probing. Should they have fought it out in Kharkov and Kiev. I don’t know, it certainly would have been a major PR victory, but would it have been a platform to address the primary goal of Donbas. Russia seems to have decided, let’s stick to the goals and take it from there. Many would say that is exactly the approach you need in war (including myself) – avoid mission creep, avoid getting sucked in elsewhere and just meet your goals.
They had no overall General in charge of the operation just regional chiefs. They were all screaming for support, which caused a mass of confusion. Initially they needed to bleed the S-300 support missiles off with decoys and older drones like the T-134 but didn’t. The Ukrainians are now all but out of S-300 support missiles but with the US and NATO starting to send their own homeland defensive systems, they may be replaced soon. The HIMARS guarantees the Ukrainians will not sue for peace. Russia’s 3 choices are to give up the land they’ve taken, stay in a protracted war forever or go all in for the win and attacked from multiple fronts again. My fear is that the Ukrainians will get desperate and use the HIMARS to attack Russian cities in a hope to force a Russian / NATO confrontation and that can only be nuclear since Russia can’t fight them all conventionally.
I don’t think you realise the conventional capability of the west. It’s pathetic, the EU have already stated the whole lot of their capability put together would be enough for 2 weeks of conflict. Bearing in mind the US is dangerously low on their conventional armourments from supplying Ukraine with too many of its own stocks. Just this week ordering a multi billion dollar rearmourment programme that’s going to take 3 to 4 years to become available you are seriously overstating the NATO capability for a sustained conventional ground war. Another 2 massive things you’ve not mentioned. Russia is fighting with one armed tied behind its back so as not to cause civilian casualties. Any NATO country comes into the west of Ukraine & the rules of the game change instantly. Russia is using between 10 & 15% of its military capability. Its hardly using its hypersonic missiles, only for special targets. Soon as any NATO country appeared in the Black Sea or west of Ukraine. They’re toast, Russia will annihilate them. The other massive thing you failed to mention, the American leadership & public are thoroughly convinced, real wars are exactly the same as Hollywood movies . America is the hero never gets beat & doesn’t suffer any losses worth mentioning. Against Russia in a ground war the amount of bodies landing bag in America from day 1 would put them into complete hysteria. They’d demand a nuclear strike or tell their leaders to get out of there. There’s a few other things I could mention in Russia’s favour also. But you clearly have no idea of each countries weapons capabilities.
HIMARS is ridiculously overrated, Ukros already have plenty of MLRS including Heavy Smerch. Yet this is another ‘game changer’. Does anyone remember switchblade drones?
A legal take-over was envisioned as protracted beyond a year. Russian command is well aware of the effects of catagon (Syria) and are using a troop rotation to ‘blood’ a maxim number of contract troops and bleed the west dry of equipment. THE WEST WILL THEN CAPITULATE.
have you understood what a feint is, in sword fencing and in fighting?
They should have comitted much more troops than that in order to acheive that. Same thing as for Kiev, you can’t take a city like than with 20k soldiers. None of these cities seem to be a priority of the Russia governement tho.
Putin stated goals were the liberation of the Donbass, the denazification of the Ukraine and the neutralization of it’s army. That’s why this war isn’t called a war but a special operation.
Nevermind Kharkov, what baffles me is how they didn’t bypass and go take poltava and pavlohrad! With that area taken or at least dug in there the Donbas would have long been encircled and taken by now
I guess they still know more than we know and did the right thing
I would think one of the objectives is to find and pull what’s left of the Ukrainian away from populated areas and destroy or force them into surrendering, as opposed to simply occupying territory or towns which would be secondary??
No, they should have bypassed them but left them cut off from resupply, like a giant Mariupol, then come back later.
The biggest mistake was not take out the coke sniffer clown Zeller and his “friends” years ago. Then place back Yanukovitch in power and everything would be settle as before 2014.
Exactly ! That’s what nobody here could explain. And I said exactly that. I have nothing against russians. But Putin, who I and lots of people at least thought to be a leader a little less gung-ho, less warmongering than his US and israeli so-called counterparts, while at the same time being much cleverer and also a great chessplayer, missed that important point in time. He, like a master, managed the Syria crisis, but then in 2014, 2015 and 2016 did nothing to reinstall russian rule in Ukraine also it was obvious US jewess Nuland had done a real coup there which was extraordinary humiliating to russia. But Putin waited and waited until it was too late. And then after 8 years he suddenly starts all-out war ?
Strangely at the very moment the whole COVID-narrative of the jewish medias was at the breaking point and couldn t be held up any longer without people violently revolting all around USA and especially EU. Coincidence ? No. I said it was as if Putin got the order to start war now, regardless what the world would think about him then. His masters needed a war to distract mankinds attention away from the fact that they (the jews) had just poisoned half of the earth population, and sterilized nearly 60 % of europes as well as the US population. And also the chinese communist party cheered, as the US military 75% took the lethal jabs. So it seems this all was long long planned in before.
And arsehole WEF leader Klaus Schwab even openly admitted that Mr. Putin, was one of their trained ‘young global leaders’ and placed into his position long ago by them in order to fullfill their plans. Schwab (btw.) has a Lenin figure/picture near his desk. Bottom line is, had Putin done things in 2014, 2015, 2016 that would have been halfway acceptable, also i am against war anyway. But taking the Donbass area and maybe create a 30 miles savezone/bufferzone in order to hinder ukraine military from shelling Donbass cities would have definitely been accepted by the consciousness of the people of the world as defensive act of russia likely even in 2022. But all out war of aggression ? In 2022 ? 8 years after the US-jewish Nuland coup in Ukraine ? No, that was madness, and was foreseeable leading into drawn out war with extraordinary high casualty rate.
In 2014, 2015, 2016 Putin could have toppled the Ukraine regime easily with a “special military operation” but waiting 8 years, until USA fully armed Ukraine and have deeply installed and taken grip of Ukraine and then starting all-out war ? No, that was of course going to destroy the otherwise halfway good reputation Putin had around the world (including in Europe population) and lead to Russia becoming the pariah. It’s like he was ordered to help his masters conceal/hide their global mRNA genocide, by starting World War 3 now, in order to distract the masses attention away from that unheard of universal total crime against mankind which the jews committed with their mRNA genetic-editing mRNA poisoning of mankind.
They killed half the world population with that time-triggered mRNA ratpoison and more and more people (running around as ‘ the real walking-dead’ started to realize that and starte asking questions and demanding answers. That’s why it was so urgently necessary for the World Jewry to kick loose big war immediately (in 2022) – before all the lies about the Covid-pandemic blow up into their own faces. War needed to be started as a distraction. The task they handed over to their little jewish butt-boy Putin.
Only when one realizes that USA, EU, and Russia+China are ALL ruled by the International Jewry, then all the things make sense and suddenly one sees the big evil picture very clearly, realizing the whole world is in deep shit, if we not start to revolt against these arc-enemies of mankind, called jews (which Jesus called “the children of Satan”).
How many other people see Russia’s restraint as a fault? Some restraint is admirable but too much restraint with bullies, liars, cheats, the corrupt, the very belligerent, it just does not do the job that needs to be done which is to FLATTEN them. Russia ALWAYS continually has her modest and reasonable RED lines CROSSED by the US UK NATO etc. Russia should inconvenience these belligerents and start to test the boundaries.
Kharkiv has to sensibly be a target for stretching Russian territorial goals in Ukraine, should the wider ‘softer’ goals of denazification look in doubt. Indeed at the moment, to achieve that goal (denazification) there seems no other option than to keep on liberating territory form Ukrainian Nazi regime control. keep going Russia! It’s hard as you fight NATO, but this victory will be as big as the patriotic war, in terms of ridding Europe again from the evil of the Nazis! Udachi!
Softer goals of denazification? Do I see a tear in your eye?
What do they want in Charkov. It’s where Azov was founded. The once center of the party or the regions of Janukovic is now a center for hatred to everything russian.
I doubt anyone who cooperated with russia even a tiny bit will survive long.
There’s not much in Kharkiv aside from the fact that Ukranian forces destroyed the Putin cockroaches and drove them out of the city. Now it’s just a matter of driving the Wagner freaks out of Severdonetsk. If they were just regular shitty Russian conscripts it would’ve happened a long time ago by now.
With a name like yours You should join up with the Ukrainian forces you love so much
Muhammed the dog is not even a human, just with that name he is lower than a dog,
The Russians said last week that the Ukrainians were massing material in Kharkiv for an offensive, just before they destroyed the HQ planning center all the commanders were meeting at. I’ll assume that the missile and artillery strikes were to break up those formations, destroy their stockpiles and kill as many supportive units as possible. The retaking of those towns was to just disrupt the positional areas being used in the planning.
Why not Kyiv instead? Occupy the capital, capture Zeller clown and Kuleba, then you win the war. It has more sense than shelling civilians again in Kharkov region. Always the regular people suffer and die instead your true enemies. Take the capital already!
Occupying Kharkiv (Kharkiv Oblast’s capital) in my opinion was never the target but suspect as I knew before was considered “A diversionary strategy”. Vladimir Putin’s main objective is to fully occupy the Donbas region, not to take major cities including Kyiv were diversionary points for the Ukrainian army to reinforce, weakening Donbas’s defensive points for the main Russian army to march in.
Hohols are gonna hohol. Don’t feel too bad about running them through the grinder. You already gave them enough options and opportunities.
From my point of view here in the Empire, the best thing is that Ukraine’s forces are being ground down little by little. No Blitzkrieg, no “shock and awe,” just a slow bleeding out of the Ukro puppet show. The U.S. regime‘s snake pit is getting frantic, and wants to produce an excuse — any excuse — to unleash World War Three. Suicide is the preferred option of the reptiles.