Here we go again-Ukraine once again pt2

[Jimbuna]

[tonschk]

MAX BLUMENTHAL ADDRESS THE TERRORIST NATO PROXY WAR ORCHESTRATED AGAINST RUSSIA VIA UKRAINE

https://www.bitchute.com/video/4gNDmEC6UVgl/

[Skybird]

As the change in legislation and comments by the gang in the Kremlin already indicated, Russia is about to send many more troops to Ukraine. This is according to Shoigu's opening speech at the meeting of the Russian Defence Ministry's Collegium. He said that they would discuss the 'strengthening of the troop formations of the Russian armed forces on our western borders', he said, according to the statement.


As was predicted and had to be expected.

[mapuc]

Markus

[Skybird]

I read that sources in Russia report record sales of antidepressants.
(No joke, but news).

[Jimbuna]

[mapuc]

“They’re still going to see, for the next couple of weeks, if there is a chance of making some progress. But for them to really make progress that would change the balance of this conflict, I think, it’s extremely, highly unlikely,” a senior western diplomat told CNN.

“Our briefings are sobering. We’re reminded of the challenges they face,” said Rep. Mike Quigley, an Illinois Democrat who recently returned from meetings in Europe with US commanders training Ukrainian armored forces. “This is the most difficult time of the war.”

https://edition.cnn.com/2023/08/08/p...ngs/index.html

Markus

[Skybird]

https://edition.cnn.com/2023/08/09/p...ics/index.html

A stalled offensive and a winter stalemate, for instance, would have particular ramifications in the United States since it could heighten questions over US support for the war that will be pushed into an acrimonious election year. Americans are braced for a potential clash between President Joe Biden, who revived the Western alliance and is Ukraine’s most critical outside supporter, and ex-President Donald Trump, a NATO skeptic who admires Putin and has pledged to end the war in 24 hours, likely on Putin’s terms. And even if Trump is not the GOP nominee in 2024, ebbing public support for the war could hurt Biden.

Therefore, for political, as well as strategic reasons, there is huge pressure on Ukraine’s long-awaited counteroffensive this summer to produce significant battlefield breakthroughs. But so far, the push is more of a slog than a blitzkrieg, raising the possibility that the war could last at least deep into next year. If so, the elastic equation that underpins the entire conflict – involving Ukraine’s capacity to fight, Americans’ appetite for multi-billion dollar aid packages and Putin’s tolerance for horrendous casualties – will be even more taut.

Putin just sits this out, holding Ukraine an armslength away by its throat. His breath may not last endlessly, but most likely it will last longer than Ukraine's, and that's what will decide this.

#%?!"*%ß& ...!!!

[Rockstar]

The war is coming to Russia now and yes it looks like Putin will be able to mobilize more meat shields. But I think Russia has lost a lot of it’s ability to support them. Putin might not be the first to blink, I bet his troops will before anyone else.

[fithah4]

Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant

Has lost power from main external line of 750 kV and connected to a back-up line
Supporting only 330 kV. This leading to a possible blackout if circuits overloaded.

Radio Free Europe Radio Liberty
https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-zapo.../32541960.html

Reuters
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe...ne-2023-08-10/

Ukrinform [ Origin of Posted News Story ]
https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-eco...nergoatom.html

[fithah4]

So with Reactor #4 still in hot shut down state and needing power and quick cooling if no power this is my concern.

With Russia cutting off the radiation sensors off the beginning of June , have any attempts been to turn them back on?

Yahoo. [ 6/ 14 / 23 ]
https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/russ...154500980.html

[Jimbuna]

[Skybird]

Originally Posted by Skybird

Wish them better luck than the last two times media reported a breakthrough and a beachhead - since these reports not much more news from these places.

This latest landing at Kherson again was anything but a breakthrough operation, but a limited commando raid with the intention to make prisoners and to give the Russians food for thought and forcing them to bring back troops from the Saporishshja front to Kherson to defend it. A distraction manouver that Russia cannot ignore because three kilometers behind the village near to which the Ukrainians landed is the street that serves the Russians as their supply line. They MUST send reinforcements that then are not available elsewhere.

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The Russian counteroffensive at Kupjansk is pressing, Ukraine has ordered evacuation of 37 villages in the region, and slowly falls back.


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FOCUS: The Ukrainian army has changed tactics in its counteroffensive. The Russian army is to be worn down. But Ukraine can barely retake territory. "We don't know exactly how much the Russian troops have already been worn down," military expert Michael Kofman told the Tagesspiegel newspaper in an interview. So recaptures by Ukraine are still possible, "but at a slower pace. That would be the optimistic view."

On the pessimistic side, Kofman said Ukraine had deployed the second squadron of U.S.-trained brigades. "If, after two months of fighting and attrition, the dynamics on the battlefield don't change greatly in the next few weeks, you have to wonder if that's it and it stays with smaller territorial gains," Kofman said.

Kofman sees three criteria for success for the Ukrainian offensive: liberation of much of the territory, at best as far as the Sea of Azov; the impression of a defeated Russian army; and proof that Ukraine could wage war efficiently with Western-trained brigades without relying solely on attrition.

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I stick to what I say sinc elong time: a war of attrition Ukriane necessarily must lose. Thats why Russia tries all it can to enforce this kind of warfare, and prevents Ukraine from conducting mobile warfare.

No breakthrough in sight anywhere. Where it was reported Ukraine had reached Russia's first defence line (usually unconfirmed reports), you hear nothing anymore.

I was pessimistic about the chances of this offensive from beginnign on and have not hidden it, but truth is it even runs worse than even I had expected. The onyl way I see left open is that they advance at elast so far that they can bring the railway along the coast intzo reahc of their artllery and so if not taking can bring down artillery of Russia's supply line there. Still, while that would immensely hurt it would not translate into a Russian defeat and withdawel in the region.

That Ukraine sees no other way anymore than to agree to a kind of warfare that Russia wants and that is immensely disadvantagous for Ukraine, tells volumes. While the ywra coul,.d ligne ron for years, I think we currently see the decisive phase of the war that predicts the final outcome.

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Rheinmetall is about to deliver 50 Leopard-1A5s, and asks Germany to allow delivery of a further 30. Germany is about to deliver two more Patriots, two engineer tanks, and some more stuff.

[Jimbuna]

[Jimbuna]

It is being reported that Poland is deploying ten thousand troops to its border with Belarus and if true I don't see Wagner challenging them.

Putin of course could be using Wagner to test the NATO resolve with such a move.