Well though this is good news for the
N/NE Ukraine, it will not be for the
East. Several news agencies have for instance have shown a
slightly over
8-mile column of trucks and 100's (
unspecified number of) of various armored vehicles.
Russia is preparing for what they should've done from the beginning, strike on a
concentrated semi-broad front out of
Donbas region and
Crimea with the goal to encircle a
large part of the Ukrainian forces that have been defending the Donbas region for the last
5-6 years. .
If the Ukraine losses here and more so doesn't extract a large portion of those troops, it will lead to
potentially opening up of the central part of the country and to
major/substantial Russian territorial gains.
This upcoming offensive, somewhat underway now as the video Don posted shows, will determine the fate of the country and who'll be in the "
driver's seat" at the negotiating table.
Some Generals (Ours) can see the upcoming offensive as being the
largest battle in that part of Europe since
1943.
Of course, they would be speaking of the
Battle of Kursk (or
Battle of Prokhorovka, Kursk.)
https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q...tail&FORM=VIRE
The big shift for Russia beyond their force deployment is that they've centralized the command authority by appointing
Gen. Aleksandr V. Dvornikov who's a very experienced having served in the
Second Chechen War and was
Commander of Russian forces in
Syria.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news...-calls-discha/
Government officials also reporting here that apparently Ukraine
has/or roughly has, a
10:1 advantage in Javelins to Russian tanks committed in the Ukraine area. If even at
halve that number that would be
significant advantage.
Slovakia (Corrected.) as was confirmed this morning, has sent
all their S-300 systems to the Ukraine
they should already be there sometime today or tomorrow at latest their time.
We have sent them a
full Patriot Battery I'm sure of course manned by our troops.
Need to verify
which S-300 they operated which could lead to
significant increase to performance capabilities.
Round 1 goes to the Ukraine hands down. Round 2 could decide the game.
Regards,
Pat