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Originally Posted by mapuc
Maybe it's to much to hope for a repetition like we saw in autumn last year.
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That was clear from beginning of the offensive on, and nobody expected such a swift stunt again. Hope was for success, though harder fought over. Lats autumn, there were no Russian fortified defence lines and defences zones 20-30km deep.
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This time the Russian is prepared or will we again see them running as hell from the frontline ?
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Some do runb, but so do some Ukrainians as well. The Russian lines so far hold. If the Ukrainaisnb even reach them, which mostly is not the case, they still dela with outposts before thefor st line, and minefields that constantly get renewed byartillery. Where the media show pictures and videos from Ukrainian commandos storming trenches and hidden stands, these are so far said outposts, not fortifications embedded in the first defence line. Two or three days ago I red (and I think posted a translated text) that the Ukrioanains are good in storming these oputpsots - but that they mostly must withdraw sooin again because the Russians quickly come down with heavy artillery on every position they have lost or have lost contact to. If you stay in the stand you just "conquered", you are dead.
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FOCUS writes:
The Ukrainian Armed Forces say they have made terrain gains in eastern and southern Ukraine, but they have also faced problems. "Due to the difficult and contradictory situation in the Bachmut and Lyman sections, we had to adjust our plans," the commander-in-chief of the land forces, Olexander Syrskyj, told the Telegram messaging service on Tuesday.
Earlier, General Staff spokesman Andriy Kovalev had spoken of an advance toward the village of Andriivka, south of the Russian-controlled town of Bachmut. In the southern part of Donetsk region, Ukrainian troops had again advanced between 500 and 750 meters near the village of Staromajorske.
The Ukrainian changes in plans presumably relate to Russian advances from the Luhansk region toward the neighboring Kharkiv region north of the Kiev-controlled town of Lyman. According to consistent reports, Russian troops have made terrain gains west of Karmasynivka.
According to unconfirmed local reports, there were explosions in the central part of the Black Sea peninsula of Crimea, which Russia annexed in 2014. It was initially unclear whether these were due to the use of Russian air defense or actual impacts.