How the war may end by the New Yorker

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/an...b-global-en-GB

Didn't seem to be an issue for the nearly 500 above surface atom/nuclear tests the USSR carried out between 1949 and 1989, and those were a lot closer to China than Ukraine is.

It is not just a question of finding any old space, to have an impact it has to be proximate to the conflict area if it is to be considered a warning shot. Air bursts are vey low fallout so being downwind should not be an issue though the EMP might be. While other nations might not agree, the Russians see the Black Sea as their private pond.

The Ukrainians are even operating long wheelbase Landrovers

Excluding all the fresh fertliser in the "not so Special Operation"
That is 44 tanks and 27 APV's lost in a DAY!


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Lots of stuff happening...

Ukrainian saboteurs killed :( They went out fighting :(

Enough said..

Some of those we trained? He has even got the flag the right way up, somethng a lot in the UK struggle with..

Ukrainian forces destroyed 44 Russian tanks yesterday, according to the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

31 of these tanks were destroyed on the Kherson/Mykolayiv battlefront, according to Operational Command "South" of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

Follow up to report of Russian retreat…

The Russian invaders are retreating chaotically and abandoning the north of Kherson region. Ukrainian defenders are chasing them to Beryslav.

Davydiv Brid, Velyka Oleksandrivka, Starosillya and other settlements have been liberated.


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good grief, thats a mech brigade worth of MBTs! in just one day! I hope it's true.

Not really a parallel, more a nod to the fact that during the cold War, weapons 'tests' were common on both sides. Did they really need to test so many? Surely some were just making sure the enemy knew you were ready, IE. A demonstration.

The Russian command will try to establish a defensive line covering the Nova Kakhovka dam. That means they try to fortify Berislavka and Kozatske.



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Parallels with the 1st AB Div in the ever reducing Oosterbeek pocket before having to withdraw across the River......but they didn't have a bridge to use to get back across!!

Is the bridge open? i know they were backfilling the shipping canal to try to reopen it. If they re-take it all, that's Crimeas water cut off again, bar that flowing over the Kerch bridge.

"New Russian cope just dropped. As always it’s unclear how much is excuses and how much is actually real. However if this tale is even close to the truth, Ukraine is employing Combined Arms in Kherson in a way that Russia couldn’t hope to achieve in the next decade never mind this year."

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Sweden appears to have tracked a sub from the Gas pipe explosions back to port.

Looks like that escape route is closing behind them.

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There is also reports of the Ukrainians infiltrating using the V and Z on vehicles to operate behind the lines, it reminds me of The Dirty Dozen and the armband switcheroo....... indeed one report when they started the first counter attack in the Kharkiv region say's they sent teams out to infiltrate areas and stick Ukrainian flags on any and every high vantage points making the Russians think that areas had already fallen around them, thus they fell back in disarray for fear of being over run.

Here you go