Guest Post by Moon of Alabama
The long expected Russian offensive in Ukraine has begun.
The Ukrainian army, egged on by its U.S. controllers, had put most of its resource into the static defense of the Bakhmut (Artyomovsk) – Soledar sector of the eastern front. An insane number of Ukrainian brigades, though many partially depleted, were concentrated on that 50 kilometer long front. This left other sectors nearly empty of Ukrainian troops.
Source: Military Land Deployment Map – bigger
I count the equivalent of some 27 brigade size formations in that area. The usual size of a brigade is some 3,000 to 4,000 men with hundreds of all kinds of vehicles. If all brigades had their full strength that force would count as 97,500 men. In a recent interview the Ukrainian military commander Zaluzhny said that his army has 200,000 men trained to fight with 500,000 more having other functions or currently being trained. The forces which are currently getting mauled in the Bakhmut area constitute 50% of Ukraine’s battle ready forces.
On the southern and northern sectors of the battle-line the Ukrainian forces have been thinned out and are only able to defend against minor forces.
The Ukrainian forces in the north and south are in the same position Russian troops had been in when the Ukrainian army last year launched a blitz attack in the Kharkiv region. The Russian screening force of some 2,000 boarder guards and federal police retreated and used its artillery to destroy the oncoming Ukrainian forces. The attack ran out of power and came to a halt after progressing some 70 kilometers on a rather large front. But Ukraine no longer has, unlike the Russians at that time, the artillery that is need to stop a larger thrust.
The big Ukrainian concentration in Bakhmut is now in an operational encirclement. The Russian forces have progressed north and south of the city and their artillery can easily control the western exit roads of Bakhmut. This a Verdun like situation. Russian artillery is by far numerical superior and can slaughter the Ukrainian troops at will. Even the U.S. military is now suggesting that Ukraine should give up on that city. Should the government in Kiev agree to that it will be a retreat under fire with likely high casualties. Not retreating though will make things even worse.
Source: Live UA Map – bigger
The Russian moves against the third and fourth Ukrainian defense lines will likely be supported by a move from the south that will liberate the rest of the Zaporiziha and Donetsk oblast.Aside from those operations the Russian command has sufficient number of troops available to run another major attack. This could come from the north into the Kharkiv region behind the Ukrainian troops currently attacking the Russian lines further east.
Source: Live UA Map – bigger
One Motorized Infantry brigade, the 56th, was added to the southern front some six days ago. Back in August this brigade had been severely mauled in its defense of Peski at the eastern front. It has since been reconstituted with new conscripts and a smorgasbord of ‘western’ delivered equipment. It can not be regarded as a fully capable unit.
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The attacking Russian force is the 58th army of the Russian Federation. These are not lightly armored, air deployable VDV forces like those who fought around the Hostomel Airport airport near Kiev. These are not militia of the Donbas republics seen on the eastern front. These are not Chechen forces storming Mariupol. These are not the Wagner mercenaries surrounding Bakhmut.
This is the real Russian army, the Red one, with all its heavy resources and capabilities to wage combined arms warfare.
The first probing Russian attacks in the area were launched two days ago. The Ukrainian lines immediately broke down and the Russian forces advanced some 5 kilometer on the very first day. Yesterday they advanced further.
Everything in red and yellow north of the closed red line are recent Russian advances.
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But the main reason Russia has dragooned so many young men, the generals believe, is to go back on the offensive for the first time since its bid to overrun Donbas fizzled out in the summer. “Just as in [the second world war]…somewhere beyond the Urals they are preparing new resources,” says General Zaluzhny, referring to the Soviet decision to move the defence industry east, beyond the range of Nazi bombers. “They are 100% being prepared.” A major Russian attack could come “in February, at best in March and at worst at the end of January”, he says.
Zaluzhny has claimed to be building reserves but he has since send even more troops to Bakhmut:
The temptation is to send in reserves [to Bakhmut]. A wiser strategy is to hold them back.
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“May the soldiers in the trenches forgive me,” says General Zaluzhny. “It’s more important to focus on the accumulation of resources right now for the more protracted and heavier battles that may begin next year.”
It is unlikely that any reserves he currently has are equipped, trained and battle ready. They will be too small to stop a fully mechanized Russian attack through the rather sparsely settled southwest of Donetzk province.
The aim of the Russian thrust in the south will not be to take cities like Zaporiziha. The aim is to bring the main transport routes, railways and roads, from west-Ukraine to the front in east Ukraine under Russian artillery fire. This will prevent not only the re-supply for the Ukrainian troops on the eastern front but also their exit from the front line. A 100 kilometer (60 miles) thrust to the north would mostly do that. A complementary thrust from the north towards south, which may or may not be coming, would finally close the cauldron.
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Let the ass kicking begin.
“Ukrainian forces retake vital city” will now be “Ukrainian forces move west to bolster defensive positions”
Ukrainian forces rapidly advance to improved fighting positions.
in Poland.
This “war” looks like it might be scripted.
Don’t get me wrong, people are likely dying, but Russia has been pulling punches, it’s so obvious, it’s ridiculous.
I agree- we are served Bull crap from both sides. Why didn’t the Russians encircle the Ukies front lines long ago instead of straight ahead attack on the Bakhmut. What won WWII for them was great encirclements of the German armies- Stalingrad anyone? Any dummy knows you hit the weak spots.
“Brave, brave, brave, brave Sir Ukraine”
The slaughter is catastrophic for Ukraine.
May God have mercy on their souls.
The Empire of Flies is running out of carcuses to devour.
https://southfront.org/war-to-last-ukrainian-as-it-is-violent-handout-of-draft-notices-january-2023-videos/
And this is what is left behind after the fighting, better stock up on a whole lot of push brooms and dust bins:
https://southfront.org/in-video-russias-newest-t-90m-main-battle-tank-destroying-ukrainian-positions/
More white goyim sacrifices.
Fuck off NAZI
No, YOU fuck off, you cocksucking faggot.
Hardly a cocksucker or a faggot, but you are a NAZI scumbag.
YOU can suck my circumcision NAZI twink.
If 12 million JOOS can rule over 7.9 BILLION of you GOYIM idiots, then YOU DESERVE IT.
Dismissed.
No, you’re quite the cocksucking faggot – and a bottom, as well. Go fuck yourself, Pvt. Dingleberry.
Found the kike.
A shitstorm be upon them.
Very bad feeling, especially as a veteran, to see D.C. and the pentagon on what surely feels like the wrong side of this.
They’ve been on the wrong side of it since the fall of the USSR.
Since WWII, at the very least.
Since 1860
SNAFU for a NeoCon government. See how well they handle domestic logistics, green utilities, and the coming currency crisis (2023 or before Jul2024) with their Reset and CBDC ( and Mark of the Beast, probably individual QR codes).
I don’t think they will have that mark till during the tribulation.
SNAFU, FUBAR & BOHICA All at once.
The DC War Pigs are all about making the world safe for war profits
Dito that, they will be seen on the wrong side of history.
No right side- all evil as fuck. There’s something going on here we just don’t know what it is.
Very bad feeling, especially as a veteran, to see D.C. and the pentagon on what surely looks like the wrong side of this fiasco.
The US, EU and NATO are being run by incompetent woke cowards. They “poked the bear” and Ukraine was destroyed.
The BRICS+++ aren’t forgetting or forgiving NeoCon destructive Sanctions etc; the falling ZOG Empire of Lies is in the World’s crosshairs now. The Gates are wide open and Barbarians are pouring in from all over the World.
Once again US foreign policies screw up everything for everyone except THE MILITARY INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX !
Cashing in supporting a CIA backed Ukrainian band of money laundering corrupt assholes that pay American politically connected whores well !
Meanwhile average people suffer the laws of unintended consequences.
Then again perhaps it is intentionally done when you listen to the WEF /NWO MALARKEY from the DAVOS BAGS OF SHIT !
Bullseye!!! Watch “Everything is a Rich Man’s Trick” on Youtube. Watch the whole vid and man o’man does it leave a hollow hole in your American Soul.
Helps to provide a link to the video you refer to:
This also KJ:
Excellent update and information that is hard to come by. The Ukie using the word “dragooned” in relation to the Russian military is deeply ironic.
Hail the king Jesus Christ or be destroyed. This ear is a distraction from the real source of peace.
Competing world powers
It’s just as the bible said it many centuries ago. Predicted in Daniel chapter 11, the pull and tug of the King of the north and the king of the south. Two great powers on earth both under satanic influence have been battling for centuries, both have the same purpose and that’s world domination exclusive of God Jehovah’s sovereignty. Furthermore, they want people’s worship as Revelation 13 describes.
These two great powers will come to to an agreement of peace the bible prophecy predicts. When the political system thinks they have succeeded in enslaving mankind, the bible says:
” Whenever it is that they are saying, “Peace and security!” then sudden destruction is to be instantly on them, just like birth pains on a pregnant woman, and they will by no means escape. 4 But you, brothers, you are not in darkness, so that the day should overtake you as it would thieves, 5 for you are all sons of light and sons of day. We belong neither to night nor to darkness.” 1 thessallonians 5:3-5.
Satan the devil is behind this struggle of the great powers on earth. His plan is similar to the political system objective, ” rule or ruin”. Diabolical objective is to distract people from the real source of peace and good health, which is no other than God’s kingdom- Revelation 11, 13, and chapter 21.
The Universal issue is: ” who has the right to be rightful sovereign of the earth and universe”.
It’s not really about jabs from pfizer, it’s about total control of the Earth’s inhabitants in whatever means possible and strangle all aspiration and hope of God’s kingdom and it’s rightful ruler for the earth , Jesus Christ appointed by Jehovah God.
We need to pray for God’s kingdom to come soon and judge these beastly powers that disdain Jehovah’s appointed king in heaven, none else but Jesus Christ.
“Your will be done on earth as in heaven, your kingdom come.” Matthew 6.
The kream of the krud do well until Revelation 18. Then they will rot in Hell for all eternity. Good riddance to bad rubbish. Until that time they will wreak havoc on this earth. Hang on, it is going to get much more interesting.
Thanks for stopping by, Hal Lindsey.
”rule or ruin” is very apt. I’d never heard the term until now, but it neatly describes the Khazarian/Zionist agenda.
Since 1945 the whores in congress & the profiteers in the weapons industry has murdered American soldiers, Vietnamese, Koreans, Syrians, Afghans & numerous other “collaterals”. No amount of blood will satiate these American vampires. Today, our proxy war in Ukraine is slaughtering Ukrainians & Russians. When the last conscripted Ukrainian bites the dust NATO will begin to bleed all in the hopes that attrition will so weaken Russia that we can seize their resources & export our sick, depraved wokism to the Christian Russians. The perverts ruling the collective west will be shocked when Russia launches their Poseidon & hypersonic Sarmat’s and turn them into ashes.
I wouldn’t be eating any Ukrainian sausage for awhile. Especially, if you find any combat patches in it.
Ukrainian sausage.
The Ukranian military leadership euphemism for their post battle troops.
The self-immolation of Ukraine should be a lesson to any people who would allow jews and faggots to rule over them.
(((Zelensky))) seems more than willing to fight to the very last Ukrainian teenager. And why not? They are are NOT his people after all
They ran out of teens and twentysomethings months ago.
Soon they will be down to the Zimmer Frame brigade.
https://youtu.be/AZjQp8YA6UM
May Fukraine Burn along with “NATO” the Nazi Association of Transhuman Oligarchs