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Ukraine counter offensive
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USA's estimate of troop losses is in excess of 100,000 both sides.
Bakhmut - reports are part suggesting just about still in Ukraine.
Keeping tanks back so effectively artillery. No surprise really. Ukraine have been doing that for a while.
A BBC reporter looked to be driven through mud to the front but not much shown on return fire. Various things, nothing big firing at stuff out of site, Hand grenades available in case the opposition's troops show up. These thing are looking more and more arranged.
There is a lot more talk of both sides fighting to a standstill and then talks where both sides would have to step down on what they want. Pass.
Bakhmut - reports are part suggesting just about still in Ukraine.
Keeping tanks back so effectively artillery. No surprise really. Ukraine have been doing that for a while.
A BBC reporter looked to be driven through mud to the front but not much shown on return fire. Various things, nothing big firing at stuff out of site, Hand grenades available in case the opposition's troops show up. These thing are looking more and more arranged.
There is a lot more talk of both sides fighting to a standstill and then talks where both sides would have to step down on what they want. Pass.
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I found US Andy's twitter:
Here is the situation as it stands on Thursday, March 2, 2023:
Bakhmut has become a modern Verdun.
- Ukrainian forces are fiercely resisting a Russian attempt to seize the small city of Bakhmut and are throwing massive extra reserves into the bloody battle, said Yevgeny Prigozhin, founder of Russia’s Wagner mercenary force.
- Russia says seizing Bakhmut would open the way to fully control the rest of the strategic Donbas industrial region bordering Russia.
- Ukraine says Bakhmut has limited strategic value but is putting up fierce resistance to inflict as many Russian losses as possible and make Russia use its ammunition and resources. Thousands of civilians remain inside Bakhmut from a pre-war population of about 70,000.
- Colin Kahl, the US undersecretary of defence for policy, described the front line in Ukraine as a “grinding slog” and said he did not expect Russia to be able to make significant territorial gains in the near term.
- Ukrainians and Russians traditionally mark March 1 as the start of spring. Already, the frozen ground has melted at the front, ushering in the season of sucking black mud – “bezdorizhzhia” in Ukrainian, “rasputitsa” in Russian – that has been notorious in military history for destroying attacking armies.
- Vyacheslav Volodin, the chairman of Russia’s lower house of parliament, said he was introducing amendments to a wartime censorship law that would increase the maximum penalty for discrediting the army from five to 15 years in jail and extend the law to cover the Wagner mercenary force.
- Russia said it would only agree to extend the Black Sea grain deal, which allows grain to be safely exported from Ukrainian ports if the interests of its agricultural producers are taken into account.
Bakhmut has become a modern Verdun.
Is that sarcasm?
No, just wrong.Is that sarcasm?
I was thinking of a different battle. One where tanks had been invented.
I was reminded of Verdun the by the line: '....inflict as many Russian losses as possible."No, just wrong.
Falkenhayn made the same claim about Verdun - after the battle. There's still some argument whether this was part of the plan or just a convenient excuse for German failure to take the city. The German army referred to it as "The Mill on the Meuse." About a million dead, though that's an estimate. Nobody really knows exactly how many died.
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Hey vinty, this must hurt
Russian minister laughed at for Ukraine war claims
Sergei Lavrov is laughed at in Delhi after saying the Ukraine war was "launched against us".
www.bbc.co.uk
Hey vinty, this must hurt
Russian minister laughed at for Ukraine war claims
Sergei Lavrov is laughed at in Delhi after saying the Ukraine war was "launched against us".www.bbc.co.uk
Oil tax revenue was down by nearly half and they're running a 20 billion $ deficit, compared to a surplus last year. Their total tax take was down by a third and their budget went up by 50% to pay for their invasion.
Tell us again how well the Russian economy is doing?
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