#Polohy is a named objective / target for the #Melitopol offensive because 🇺🇦 holding Polohy or contesting it and denying 🇷🇺 use of its railway and roads would secure the eastern flank.
@washingtonpost Time is not on Ukraine’s side
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When it comes to the war in Ukraine, about the only thing that’s certain right now is that the fighting and destruction will continue.
Vladimir Putin remains fully committed to bringing all of Ukraine back under Russian control or — failing that
@washingtonpost — destroying it as a viable country. He believes it is his historical destiny — his messianic mission — to reestablish the Russian Empire and, as Zbigniew Brzezinski observed years ago, there can be no Russian Empire without Ukraine.
Both of us have dealt with Putin on a number
@washingtonpost of occasions, and we are convinced he believes time is on his side: that he can wear down the Ukrainians and that U.S. and European unity and support for Ukraine will eventually erode and fracture. To be sure, the Russian economy and people will suffer as the war continues, but
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🇺🇦 is contesting Pravdyne with artillery - and this range map shows there is a lot of 🇺🇦-held territory from where to hit 🇷🇺 in and around Pravdyne.
🇺🇦 should hold long the line enough for the 🇺🇦artillery to hit 🇷🇺.
@Tubewayarmy29@Sierra__Alpha@MartinK27@NLwartracker 🧵2/4
🇺🇦 should 🥇 retake Pravdyne & consolidate to put a 🇺🇦battery a few Km south where 🇺🇦artillery would be in range of Stanislav, Tomyna Balka, Znam'yanka, Klapaya & Kyselivka.