Originally Posted by
NutLoose
People wonder when the Kherson counter attack will start.
Surely as now it is believed 60% of the in country Russian forces are now in the Kherson region, all the main bridges supplying them are down, with strikes being performed on their munitions stockpiles, food supplies, command and headquarters infrastructure… along with their barracks.
Then is it not safe to assume it is already on the way? It’s rapidly turning into their own Bastogne.
Bastogne was saved by allied logistics holding out, a reinforcement of the lines from reserves, even exhausted, with the turn of the weather permitting CAS [Aviation thingy] to interdict the exhausted supply lines of the Wehrmacht. It accelerated the collapse of the defence of Germany proper.
Russia is attempting to move an incompetent and ill led army down to plug an untenable position with patent compromised supply lines, while weakening their force in the fields in the NE, where the primary supply lines remain within Ukraines expanded artillery capability. Russia races to put dads army and rapists and alleged murderers into the field. Curiously, Russia seems to still avoid messing the hair styles of Muscovite's or St Pete's elite, preferring to send those unfortunate enough to be second class citizens in the workers paradise that Putin is revisiting. What could go wrong with this picture, where some 75% of Russia's might and finery has been thrown in the glorious field of combat in the west, having now lost effectiveness of more than half of that bunch, and leaving the playpen that the rest of the federation is under a much reduced yoke of the centralised control of the Kremlin. Time for the states to renegotiate the terms of their association now would think.
Von Paulus' fate may soon be replayed with some irony.