Russia spent 18 months building its salient toward Sloviansk; Ukraine took much of it back in three. By 30 September, three of four planned phases in, the operation had returned 176 sq km to Ukrainian control, taken 250 Russian prisoners, and cost Russia more than 5,000 killed and wounded, Ukraine’s presidential office said. It also foiled a Russian plan to break into the rear of the Sloviansk-Kramatorsk urban area, the office said.
Defying critics who insisted vehicles couldn’t possibly survive in the drone-patrolled gray zone, the 3rd Army Corps repeatedly deployed mechanized forces as it counterattacked across a roughly 100 sq km salient the Russian 20th and 25th Combined Arms Armies had extended toward Sloviansk, one of the last two big free cities in Donetsk Oblast.
Maneuvering for months under a veil of secrecy, the 3rd Army Corps found and exploited gaps along the flanks of the 20th and 25th CAAs, ultimately breaking into the Russian armies’ rears and forcing them to pull back across the Zherebets River in order to avoid encirclement.
Well that’s relief. I was worried that we lost yet another way of killing one another.
If you understood war you would understand this is a relief, this isn’t about celebrating killing it is about dispelling the myths that russian momentum is inevitable and that drones are some radical discontinuous departure from the principle in war that what is valuable are the humans not the machines.
Seems it’s about reassuring us that those assaults are still a thing.
It’s a counter offensive to stop a slow pincher encircling their strongest defensive positions.
I understand what it is.
Fooled me
Reading comprehension problem I see? You can fix that you know. It just takes an effort.
Just to make sure I have this right, it’s your opinion that the moral thing would be for Ukraine to lose?
Obviously it’d be ideal if Russia would stop invading but that doesn’t seem to be in the cards. I’m genuinely interested in understanding where you are coming from, if I missed my first guess.
Ffs…. How did you get that from what I said. Read the headline. Then read what I said.
