Laut hochrangigem General haben ukrainische Streitkräfte in der vergangenen Woche fast so viel russisches Territorium erobert, wie Russland in diesem Jahr Land in der Ukraine erobert hat
https://www.businessinsider.com/ukraine-captured-hundreds-square-miles-russian-territory-general-2024-8
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I’m just hoping and waiting for Ukraine to fold Russia’s entire northern line.
Then onwards to liberate Ukraine, the total neutralization of the black fleet and Rostov as a FOB, the siege of Moscow and the liberation of east Ukraine, and finally, the death of Putin and fascist Russia.
Impressive to say the least on how quickly Ukraine capturing so much Russian territory.
Not by choice but Russia is forced to utilized their old WW II tactics against the Nazi invasion which is to give land away to gain time. 😛
Even if Ukraine is eventually forced to retreat, it will have accomplished several goals.
1) Distract Russia from other fronts in Ukraine.
2) Disrupt Russian logistics.
3) Give Russian civilians a dose of their own medicine that Ukrainian civilians suffered.
4) Show Russian people Putin as bumbling, incompetent politician he is.
etc.
Lol it’s poetically beautiful. What a time to be alive and witness actual history
Ukraine is just building that buffer zone russia was requesting for a while know. Just trying to be helpful.
Are the Russians risking saturating the area with land mines like they do in the Ukrainian territory or won’t they do that in their own territory?
Ukraine should press on until it controls at least 4 ruZZian regions. I say: Kursk, Belgorod, Bryansk, and Voronezh. Those regions also have good agricultural resources.
This makes me happy.
Now for elections.
Also, possibly plant plastic mines that can’t be detected with metal detectors to increase Russian losses if they try to take territory back.
It’s a shame Ukraine doesn’t have the military assets to hold the territory, otherwise maybe they could simply do a trade – we leave Kursk, Russians leave Ukraine. Unfortunately Ukraine is just spread to thin to do this; they will have to pull back whenever Russia finally gets there act together. Note though, this may take a while, and is not without risk for Putin. Right now it seems that Moscow is unwilling to redeploy major units from the fronts near Kharkiv where they are having some (crawling) successes, and is pulling in a mish-mash of units from other fronts and conscripts. This is not a cohesive force, so outside a few battle hardened units, it’s unclear how effective the response force will be. At best, Russia will probably have to use the conscripts as meat shields to hold ground while relying on more experienced units to try to push Ukraine out. However, use of conscripts in this way is apparently illegal without an official declaration of war, and more importantly, has the the potential to be deeply unpopular, thus the direct risk with this strategy.
I’m sure Ukraine will eventually be forced out, though hopefully they’ll be able to inflict a bloody price in a fighting retreat. I do wonder if they’ll try to fortify the gas terminal. That’s a strategic target that would be hard to retake without causing catastrophic damage to it, and is close enough to the border that they might be able to keep supply lines open. However, I’m not sure that Russia can manage it with the forces they are sending, and “eventually could prove to be a long time.”
Longer term though, I think this operation should still prove well worth it. Russia was making slow progress around Kharkiv simply by pouring manpower into the region. However, despite their current response, I think Russia isn’t going to have a choice but to reinforce the entire border now, or they’ll risk having Ukraine do these cross border attacks again and again. Even Russia doesn’t have the reserves to cover the whole border that while trying to grind down a front through attrition tactics.
Ukraine took a big risk with the amount of forces they put into this operation, but so far it is paying off really well. 120000 people displaced, plus the PR damage and in the interruption to Russia’s operational tempo is enough to change the face of this war for months, if not years, and turn the entire situation back toward Ukraine’s favor (for now at least). I doubt one push is enough, but if Russia can’t secure their border and Ukraine keeps pulling off these raids, even if not on this scale, I think it is going to become a real problem back home for Putin.
This is the best tl;dr I could make, [original](https://www.businessinsider.com/ukraine-captured-hundreds-square-miles-russian-territory-general-2024-8) reduced by 84%. (I’m a bot)
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> In under a week, Ukrainian forces have captured around 1,000 square kilometers in their surprise offensive into Russia, Kyiv's top commander said on Monday.
> The amount of Russian territory that Ukraine has seized in a matter of days – roughly 386 square miles – is almost as much as Moscow has captured in Ukraine this year.
> ISW experts wrote in their Sunday assessment that "Russia's possession of the theater-wide initiative since November 2023 has allowed Russia to determine the location, time, scale, and requirements of fighting in Ukraine and forced Ukraine to expend materiel and manpower in reactive defensive operations.
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That would be incredible if true. Just the perfect glove slap in the face for Sad Vlad.
They should drop revolution propaganda if they haven’t already. Recruit/enable defectors…
You know what….
Keep rolling rolling, keep rolling rolling
Ukraine just need to start massing forces across the border in the north west, around Klimovo and Sluchovsk.
Doesn’t matter how green they are (or Russia *thinks* they are) because they have to respond and put troops there anyway. If they don’t respond, then maybe they weren’t actually green troops at all, or they get swapped out overnight with experienced troops.
Russia just realised that it’s 200,000 men short on border defence forces, and it’s glorious.
Its one of those things that sounds good but as Napoleon discovered Russian land is completely worthless
The special operation is going well.
Pringles could have gone all the way to Moscow if he had planned just SLIGHTLY better.
And Russia has done nothing to bolster their defenses.
It’s crazy to say but while they still have a LONG way to go, Ukraine making it all the way to Moscow isn’t as crazy as it once would have seemed. I don’t think I’d be willing to bet on it, and it’d still be surprising… but not completely shocking.
haha, you fucking loser Russians can’t even defend your own borders . Pathetic, we’re all laughing at your incompetence.
Also they did it without expending much in shells, human life and also maintaining most of the territorial integrity wow.
Don’t stop driving until you get to Moscow.
How could this happen? Russia has the second best military >!in Russia!<.
I really hope that Ukraine is demolishing as much Russian infrastructure as they can and making sure it’s not even repairable. Rip up as much railroad tracks as possible!
I’m sure there are more than a few special forces units embedded in the thousands of refugees
Very nice
I wonder what they have captured in terms of supplies and depos?
Seems like they really can make a trade lmao