In the South:
Whoah
Sums it up quite nicely
Offensive in the east has not stopped at Lyman,
Russian lines under severe jeopardy in East and South. Ukrainian Command have played an absolute blinder.
Apologies, I’m trying to keep up but struggling. Are we seeing a large scale collapse of Russian forces now? Or are they still very strong in certain areas?
Finnish volunteer on his combat experience alongside the UA army. Now in hospital somewhere.
They still control vast swathes of territory and have significant materiel and men. That said, they’ve lost the initiative and are now just reactive. They’ve been assaulting Bahkmut unsuccessfully and endless, for example, and shelling and launching indiscriminate missile strikes but all the impetus in the east is with Ukraine and so now it seems, on the slower burning Kherson offensive. Looking at the maps and going by the reports, it seems that a few salients can be developed and encirclement of Russian formations a real possibility.
A really long way to go though. Russia has lost territory but still retains more that was recently lost by Ukraine so at this point it’s still reversing losses that were incurred between Feb and June. The ground work of targeting Russian ammo dumps and supply dumps have really gone a long way to making this possible. It’s a long game being played but Ukraine playing it on the front foot for now. It’s hard to know the Ukrainian supply situation but one would think they would seek to press the advantage for as hard as they can for as long as they can. With enough sustained pressure against a clearly demoralized and ill supplied enemy, it’s incredible how quickly a breakthrough can be turned into a rout.
Thanks
Large scale collapse in some strategic areas. In some others, they are still of course strong. They keep launching attack after attack on bakhmut for instance and Zaporiziyhy is well defended in theory as they await Ukrainian strikes there.
Probably not the same Rosgvardia unit, but still funny
Good explanations as always
Just like UK medical protective clothing!
From Lyman before it fell