Invading Kursk with their best soldiers was quite frankly the stupidest move any military has made in all of recorded history.
It’s all falling apart now.
The pigs are on the run.
What the hell were they thinking with that silly shit?
Whose idea was it? Was America trying to sabotage them?
Russian troops have reached the centre of Vuhledar, a bastion on strategic high ground in eastern Ukraine’s industrial Donbas region that had resisted Russian assaults since Moscow’s full-scale invasion, a regional Ukrainian official said on Tuesday.
Footage posted to social media showed Russian soldiers waving a flag from atop a bombed-out multi-storey building and unfurling another flag on a metal spire on a roof. Reuters determined the footage matched street patterns of Vuhledar.
It’s truly hilarious how much these scenes look like something out of Fallout. Seriously: two of these pictures are from Ugledar, the other is from Fallout.
You can’t tell which is which, can you?
Other images showed smoke rising over the ruins of the once small mining town, now a deserted and devastated battlefield where Ukrainian units had held off previous armoured Russian assaults through 2-1/2 years of war.
…
Russian military bloggers, including a group of military analysts who ran the prominent Rybar Telegram channel, touted the capture of the city, which could speed up the advance of Russian forces in Donbas.
Vuhledar has strategic significance because of its high ground and its location near the junction of the two main fronts, in eastern and southern Ukraine. Russian forces reached the outskirts last week and have since intensified their push.
…
Since August, Moscow’s troops have advanced at their fastest rate for more than two years in eastern Ukraine, despite Ukrainian forces mounting a surprise incursion into Russia’s Kursk region.
Despite it? More like “because of it.”
The balance on the frontline was obviously delicate, and the Ukraine at maximum force was going for a stalemate with the line not moving much. Then they put all their best men on this kiddy adventure movie in Kursk that no one has even tried to explain in a serious way.
When this is all over, I’m going to write a screenplay (and hopefully direct) a Naked Gun style slapstick comedy film about the Kursk invasion.
Oleksandr Kovalenko, a Ukrainian military analyst, said that about 2,000 to 3,000 Russian troops were in the town, attacking from three different directions.
“We will not be able to hold on in Vuhledar in these conditions,” Kovalenko told Reuters, saying the decision to retreat from Vuhledar should be taken quickly.
Full control over Vuhledar would help Moscow’s troops to improve their logistics by using railways more actively, easing their further advance in the region and giving them positions on heights from which to fire artillery.
The lines have collapsed. Or maybe more accurately, they are collapsing.
There is not much further that this can be dragged out. The US is already redefining “surrender” as “victory.”
The Americans are going all-in for Israel and they can’t keep pissing away resources on this pointless boondoggle.