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  1. Russia’s Arrival In Dnipropetrovsk Puts Ukraine In A Dilemma

    Russia’s Arrival In Dnipropetrovsk Puts Ukraine In A Dilemma

    By Andrew Korybko

    It’s very difficult to imagine how Ukraine can prevent any further Russian advances after this.

    The Russian Ministry of Defence announced on Sunday that their forces had entered Ukraine’s Dnipropetrovsk Region, which Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov confirmed is part of Putin’s buffer zone plan. This was foreseen as early as late August once the Battle of Pokrovsk began but has been achieved even without capturing that strategic fortress town. Russian forces simply went around it after breaking through the southern Donbass front. This development puts Ukraine in a dilemma.

    It’ll now have to simultaneously fortify the Dnipropetrovsk front together with the southern Kharkov and northern Zaporozhye ones in case Russia uses its new position to launch offensives into any of those three. This could put serious strain on the Ukrainian Armed Forces as they’re already struggling to prevent a major breakthrough in Sumy Region from Kursk. Coupled with depleting manpower and questions about continued US military-intelligence aid, this might be enough to collapse the frontlines.

    To be sure, that scenario has been bandied about many times over the past more than 1,200 days, but it nowadays appears tantalizingly closer than ever. Observers also shouldn’t forget that Putin told Trump that he’ll respond to Ukraine’s strategic drone strikes earlier this month, which could combine with the abovementioned two factors to achieve this long-desired breakthrough. Of course, it might just be a symbolic demonstration of force, but it could also be something more significant as well.

    Ukraine’s best chances of preventing this are for the US to either get Russia to agree to freeze the frontlines or to go on another offensive. The first possibility could be advanced by the carrot-and-stick approach of proposing a better resource-centric strategic partnership than has already been offered in exchange on pain of imposing crippling secondary sanctions on its energy clients (specifically China and India with likely waivers for the EU) and/or doubling down on military-intelligence aid if it still refuses.

    As for the second, the 120,000 troops that Ukraine has assembled along the Belarusian border according to President Alexander Lukashenko last summer could either cross that frontier and/or one of Russia’s internationally recognized frontiers. Objectively speaking, however, both possibilities only stand a slim chance of success: Russia has made it clear that it must achieve more of its goals in the conflict before agreeing to any ceasefire while its success in pushing Ukraine out of Kursk bodes ill for other invasions.

    The likelihood of Ukraine cutting its losses by agreeing to more of Russia’s demands for peace is nil. Therefore, it might inevitably opt, whether in lieu of the aforesaid scenarios or in parallel with one or both of them, to intensify its “unconventional operations” against Russia. This refers to assassinations, strategic drone strikes, and terrorism. All that will do, however, is provoke more (probably outsized) conventional retaliation from Russia and thus painfully delay Ukraine’s seemingly inevitable defeat.

    With an eye towards the endgame, it appears as though an inflection point is about to be reached or already has been in the sense of irreversibly shifting the military-strategic dynamics in Russia’s favour. It’s very difficult to imagine how Ukraine can extricate itself from this dilemma. All signs point to this being impossible, though the conflict has already surprised observers on both sides before, so it can’t be ruled out. Nevertheless, it’s a far-fetched scenario, and it’s more likely that Ukraine’s official defeat is nigh.

    Disclaimer: The views expressed in this article are author’s own and do not necessarily reflect the editorial policy of Voice of East.

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    #Dnipropetrovsk #EU #Geopolitics #Kharkov #Kursk #Russia #Ukraine #USA #Zaporozhye

  2. The russian attack on #Zaporozhye today - air bombs. Ordinary residential buildings were damaged...

    A total of 13 people were injured, two were rescued from the rubble....

    ..In total, in just one week, the russian army used almost 900 aerial bombs, more than 300 "shaheeds" and more than 40 missiles. This russian terror knows no pauses, and it can be stopped only by the unity of the world - unity in supporting #Ukraine and unity in pressuring russia for war"

    - Volodymyr #Zelenskyy

  3. The russian attack on #Zaporozhye today - air bombs. Ordinary residential buildings were damaged...

    A total of 13 people were injured, two were rescued from the rubble....

    ..In total, in just one week, the russian army used almost 900 aerial bombs, more than 300 "shaheeds" and more than 40 missiles. This russian terror knows no pauses, and it can be stopped only by the unity of the world - unity in supporting #Ukraine and unity in pressuring russia for war"

    - Volodymyr #Zelenskyy

  4. The russian attack on #Zaporozhye today - air bombs. Ordinary residential buildings were damaged...

    A total of 13 people were injured, two were rescued from the rubble....

    ..In total, in just one week, the russian army used almost 900 aerial bombs, more than 300 "shaheeds" and more than 40 missiles. This russian terror knows no pauses, and it can be stopped only by the unity of the world - unity in supporting #Ukraine and unity in pressuring russia for war"

    - Volodymyr #Zelenskyy

  5. #Ukraine successfully destroyed a TOS-1A "#Solntsepok" heavy flamethrower system, which is the "pride" of the Russian military industry and a rare target at the front, in the #Zaporozhye region.

    t.me/SBUkr/12524

    #Russia

  6. Bilanțul militarilor ruși morți în 🇺🇦#Ucraina a depășit 50.000, fără a lua în calcul decesele din #Donetsk și #Zaporozhye, conform 📰#BBC.

    🔗 wp.me/p9KpFA-3xPl

    #Știri #Rusia #ArmataRusă

  7. Russian telegram channels are celebrating an early victory: ⚡️🇷🇺🇺🇦⚔️ Front #Summary for 19 Feb 2024 by 20:07⚡️


    🔹In #Kherson Direction, without changes, an AFU boats were sunk again during an attempt to land on the left bank.

    🔹In #Zaporozhye Direction, our forces are heavily fighting for #Rabotino, both sides are digging into the positions. So far it is known that ours in fierce fighting have reached the geographical outskirts of the village from the west, south and southeast. The AFU positions are already being attacked from three sides. Advancement is also recorded near #Verbovoye.

    🔹In #SouthDonetsk Direction, our units are advancing west of #Staromayorskoye and in the area of #Prechistovka. Our Artillery thwarted AFU attempts to rotate their forward positions.

    🔹In #Avdeyevka Direction, our sappers report that the mining in the city is dense, there are many traps. They are not surprised to meet a lot of #NATO weapons. Meanwhile, our forces are attacking #Lastochkino, where the enemy's presence remains. The AFU's aim is to gain time to consolidate on the main defensive line. At #Nevelskoye, our troops advanced about 1 more km.

    🔹In the #Bakhmut Direction, our army is approaching the outskirts of #Ivanovskoye (#Krasnoye) with a broad front from #Khromovo to #Chernobylts. The half-encirclement of the AFU in the village looms. And our military has already gained a foothold in its northeastern outskirts. Our Aerospace Forces, artillery and drone pilots continue to very methodically hit any AFU targets in the direction of .Chasov Yar up to pickups.

    🔹In #Svatovo Direction, on the #Seversk front, our forces pushed the AFU back about 1 km on the approaches to #Vasyukovka and gained a foothold in the landing. In the #Liman sector, the further advance on #Terny is not easy. In #Kupyansk sector, after the liberation of #Krakhmalnoye and #Tabayevka, there has been no progress for some time. Meanwhile, our artillery is active. The reason that Zelensky is near #Kupyansk today is the high risk of activation of attacks from our army. It is said that there is a high accumulation of our forces.

    💥The AFU struck #Makeyevka with MLRS today, damaged an oil depot, there is a wounded man. Three children in #Panteleymonovka and a resident of #Donetsk were injured. Furthermore they tried to attack a civilian facility in #Mariupol by a British kamikaze drone with 7 kg of explosives. It was intercepted and landed. #Ukraine reports that they have shot down two more Russian aircraft. So far it is known that our plane was shot down near #Mariupol. Moreover, according to the first version, by our own air defence. The MoD refrains from commenting which is not a good trend.

    🎯Our Forces hit In #Kramatorsk enterprises used by the AFU to create armored parts for military equipment. In one of the hangars, a Bradley IFV was covered. In #Lvov, an enterprise producing drones burned at night. They write that the underground put down their security and set the plant on fire.

    #Ukraine #Russia #UkraineWar #Politics #Putin #Zelensky #NATO

  8. 1) #Gerassimov is still an active Frontline Commander
    2) He removed Major General Ivan #Popov from his post
    3) because Popov requested a rotation of his unit on the #Zaporozhye front otherwise he would report to #Putin
    4) he was sent directly to the front for this
    5) #prigozhin

    source:
    warcriminal Igor #Girkin (#Strelkov)
    twitter.com/GirkinGirkin/statu

  9. 1) #Gerassimov is still an active Frontline Commander
    2) He removed Major General Ivan #Popov from his post
    3) because Popov requested a rotation of his unit on the #Zaporozhye front otherwise he would report to #Putin
    4) he was sent directly to the front for this
    5) #prigozhin

    source:
    warcriminal Igor #Girkin (#Strelkov)
    twitter.com/GirkinGirkin/statu

  10. 1) #Gerassimov is still an active Frontline Commander
    2) He removed Major General Ivan #Popov from his post
    3) because Popov requested a rotation of his unit on the #Zaporozhye front otherwise he would report to #Putin
    4) he was sent directly to the front for this
    5) #prigozhin

    source:
    warcriminal Igor #Girkin (#Strelkov)
    twitter.com/GirkinGirkin/statu

  11. They are not farm machines : High quality photos of #Leopard 2A6, M2 #Bradley ODS-SA, YPR-765, #MRAP International #MaxxPro, #Bergenpanzer 3 #Buffel and Leopard 2R #HMBV tanks destroyed at the start of the #Ukrainian @Counteroffensive in #Zaporozhye.


    #Ukraine #Russia #UkraineWar

  12. (from #Russia. Friendly American #Telegram channel, wording is not mine)

    As the Ukrainian Counter-offensive enters in its 2nd-4th day, In total, during the failed attack in the #Zaporozhye direction, the Armed Forces of #Ukraine lost:

    — 4x German tanks #Leopard 2A6 MBT and Leopard 2A4 MBT (2 destroyed, 1 hit and abandoned, 2 abandoned)
    — 1x T-64BV MBT (which was mistaken by a Leopard by some observers, abandoned after missing one of its tracks)
    — 6x American infantry fighting vehicles M2A2 #Bradley ODS-SA (all shot down and abandoned)
    — 3x US-supplied #MRAP M1224 MaxxPro (all hit and abandoned)
    — 1x #Dutch-supplied armored personnel carrier YPR-765 (hit and abandoned)
    — 1x #Czech-supplied T-72M1 (destroyed)
    — 1x BMR-2 demining vehicle (hit and abandoned)
    — 1x French-supplied VAB armored car (hit and abandoned).
    — Several burned out trucks
    #NATO #UkraineWad
    For the first time , Leopard 2 tanks and M2A2 Bradley IFVs were destroyed.

  13. 🇬🇧 The TV presenter Olga Zenkova from NTV was sent to occupied #Melitopol to an editorial assignment, in January the 17.
    While visiting a restaurant, , of the hotel Vorontsovsky in the temporarily occupied Zaporozhye region, "Kadyrovites" leading by Kadyrov’s nephew, Hasan Ibrahimov, and men from his unit of #Russia's army, "who presented themselves as fighters from the Akhmat battalion", walked up to her, beat up her cameraman-driver man and then she "w as the victim of violent sexual acts".
    This according to her employers of NTV who have filed a criminal complaint.
    The channel pointed out that the matter was banned from being reported so as not to "discredit the army".

    🇵🇹 A apresentadora de TV Olga Zenkova da NTV foi enviada em 17 de janeiro, para a ocupada cidade de #Melitopol numa missão editorial.
    Durante uma visita a um restaurante, do hotel Vorontsovsky na região temporariamente ocupada de Zaporozhye, "Kadyrovites" liderados pelo sobrinho de Kadyrov, Hasan Ibrahimov, e homens de sua unidade do exército da #Russia, "que se apresentaram como combatentes do batalhão Akhmat", espancaram o seu cameramen-motorista e atacaram-na tendo esta sido "vítima de atos sexuais violentos".
    Isso de acordo com seus empregadores da NTV, que apresentaram uma queixa criminal.
    O canal destacou que o assunto foi proibido de ser noticiado para não "desacreditar o exército".

    #OlgaZenkova #Ukraine #NTV #UkraineInvasion #Zaporozhye #Melitopol #violacaodireitoshumanos #rape

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