#Bakhmut
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In the past week, Ukrainian armed forces have come under a spotlight as analysts pore over reports to divine how the 2023 offensive is progressing. It is much too early for such st...
Zelensky non ha avuto la decenza di stare con i suoi soldati nei giorni più difficili. Tutti sapevano che la liberazione di #Bakhmut era imminente. L’intelligence occidentale sapev...
Today #Bakhmut is denazified. In a final display of Russian artillery, the remaining 8 city blocks were cooked off from incendiary shells and #denazified. Bakhmut is done, the bulk...
Much attention at present is being paid to the Ukrainian offensives that are likely to be launched in the coming weeks (or even the coming days). But, what of the Russians? An expl...
1/ Ukraine TVD, 20 FEB-07 APR 23. The past 7 weeks saw a continuation of the Russian Winter Offensive as major pushes continued in Kreminna, Bakhmut, and Avdiivka. Russia made imp...
In military operations, we often speak about ‘momentum’ and ‘seizing the initiative’. It is a term used in military publications, and heavily emphasised in #leadership & operations...
The Battle of #Bakhmut has now raged since August 2022. The massive human and material resources expended by Russians on this objective may soon necessitate a Ukrainian withdrawal...
1/ Ukraine TVD, 1-31 JAN 23. The first month of 2023 saw a determined effort by the VSRF to finally seize control of Bakhmut in central Donetsk, blunt ZSU advances in Luhansk, and...
Recently, comparisons with the WW1 stalemates on the western front from 1915 have been used by some observers of the war in #Ukraine. It makes for good headlines but there is one p...
Earlier this week, I published a thread that was the first of two parts examining how #Ukraine and Russia might think about – and plan – the inevitable offensives to come in 2023....
NEW: #Ukraine has inflicted a major operational defeat on #Russia, recapturing almost all of #Kharkiv Oblast in a rapid counter-offensive. Ukraine has turned the tide in its favor,...