Oh that’s very good.

While the Russians strip units out of the East to reinforce the South …

The Ukrainians start to take chunks out of the Izyum frontline (in the East).
Really what this is is interior vs exterior lines.

Get ready for a map…
The Ukrainians, who have the momentum now, are going to shift pressure from south to east and backwards and forwards.
And the Russians have to move their forces through a much larger arc than the Ukrainians do, and so the Ukrainians can make the Russians dance to their tune.

Nicely done.
To those who are popping up saying that the Kherson thing was a feint so that they can take back the east, I don’t think so.

The South is still the main effort but by making mischief in the East the Ukrainians are making the Russians keep some forces there.
Thus making the South easier to take.
The Ukrainians are a lot better at this than the Russians.
My prediction of eventual Russian defeat still stands.

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Time for a little update thread on Ukraine.

We are at a very interesting point.

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A couple of weeks ago (or so) the Russians announced an ‘operational pause’ in the Donbas.

Op pauses are pretty normal in this type of high intensity warfare, because of the vast supplies required and damages inflicted.
Armies sometime just have to take ‘time outs’ to regroup and build up their supplies again.

Although normally you don’t broadcast to everyone that you’re doing it. That’s a big weird an makes it seem like there must be another reason that Russian military activity has decreased.
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Let’s just unpack that a little.

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This thread is gonna zoom out quite a lot from the battlefield; frankly because not much has happened since I threaded last week: the Ukrainians have left Severodonestsk, and they are still making progress towards Kherson. See here for the thread:
By the way, the way the media has handled the battle in Donbas has been shocking. A few outlets who shall remain nameless have been painting leaving Severodonestsk as a strategic defeat for Ukraine—whereas it is quite the opposite. The Ukrainians used it to bleed the Ru AF …
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A thread (plus some GREAAAAAT maps)
Whilst everyone has been talking about the Donbas, something much more significant has been happening in the South.

The Ukrainians are mounting a counter-attack towards Kherson. This has been going on for about three weeks.
I’ll come to that in a bit, but first I want to make some assessments about why everyone is going on about Donbas.
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A little round up of where we are in Ukraine.

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Spoiler alert: not much is happening of grand strategic value; it is not clear how this current phase is going to play out.
There are three areas with movement in them.

1) Around Kharkiv (NE Ukr)
2) Around Kherson (S Ukr)
3) Lushank and Sverodonetsk (E Ukr)
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Time for a little round up of the Ukraine situation.

A thread (with some poorly drawn maps).
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For leaders the challenge is know when to act, based on very limited information.
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That is: they’ve moved from the offensive to the defensive (conversely, the Ukrainians have moved from the defensive to the offensive).
Two areas where this is very obvious: Kherson and Kharkiv.

Kherson - where the Ukrainians have pushed the Russians back towards the city which, if it continues, will make the Ru planned annexation a bit difficult.

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