Question about Ukraine counter-offensive.

[BrickHouse888]

Anyone know which Oblasts or parts of Ukraine thee Ukrainian military has attempted to back?

Anyone know if their first part of the counter-offensive was at like Kherson, or Crimea?

 

[BrickHouse888]

This USmessageboard member mentions the town of Storozheve just got taken back by Ukraine. Which is in the Donetsk Oblast.

Russian soldiers' corpses line road into liberated Ukrainian village

Hmm..I've read several posts in this forum stating that the Ukrainians have been thrown back with massive losses of men and material...but I keep seeing a different story...I guess Reuters could be lying...or....not...

www.usmessageboard.com

I guess Ukraine is aiming at getting Donetsk back..

 

[Oddball]

It's more like Kursk.

The Russians knew where the attack was coming, roughly when it was coming, and dug in accordingly....The corrupt despotic dope Tenpercentskyy blundered his troops int the kill zones.

 

[mamooth]

Anyone know which Oblasts or parts of Ukraine thee Ukrainian military has attempted to back?

Anyone know if their first part of the counter-offensive was at like Kherson, or Crimea?

Not Kherson. Crossing the river with the dam breached is too difficult. And you have to go through Kherson to get to Crimea.

More "the middle." East of the big reservoir, and then up the curve around the north.

Ukraine is very good at OpSec, but we do know they've been making solid advances. Nothing spectacular, but Ukraine has only committed about a fourth of their forces. They're still wearing down the Russian supply and control structure.

Ukraine in maps: Tracking the war with Russia

Russian forces make "tactically significant advances" near Kharkiv, with the war now in its third year.

www.bbc.com

 

[Baron Von Murderpaws]

The ONLY "counter offensive" Zelenskyy is interested in, is laundering MORE of OUR money into HIS bank accounts!!!!

 

[Sunni Man]

The Russian army will fall back, dig in, zero in the area; and Zelensky will order the Ukrainian army to attack in a counter-offensive.
Then the Russians will unleash a massive artillery barrage that can last for hours, even days, and totally devastate the Ukrainian forces.
Once there are no Ukrainians left to fight.
The Russian army will advance, stop, regroup, and repeat.
Russia has been using this tactic for months, and the Ukrainian's keep taking the bait and falling into the trap.
Ukraine's has lost the majority of its experienced soldiers and only has a small number of reserve personal to replace them.

 

[Oddball]

The Russian army will fall back, dig in, and the Ukrainians rush in with a counter-offensive. Then the Russians will unleash a massive artillery barrage that can last for hours, even days, and devastate the Ukrainian forces.
Russia has been using this tactic for months over a century....

Fixed that for ya.

 

[BrickHouse888]

Not Kherson. Crossing the river with the dam breached is too difficult. And you have to go through Kherson to get to Crimea.

More "the middle." East of the big reservoir, and then up the curve around the north.

Ukraine is very good at OpSec, but we do know they've been making solid advances. Nothing spectacular, but Ukraine has only committed about a fourth of their forces. They're still wearing down the Russian supply and control structure.

Ukraine in maps: Tracking the war with Russia

Russian forces make "tactically significant advances" near Kharkiv, with the war now in its third year.

www.bbc.com

Thanks man.

 

[krichton]

The Russian army will fall back, dig in, zero in the area; and Zelensky will order the Ukrainian army to attack in a counter-offensive.
Then the Russians will unleash a massive artillery barrage that can last for hours, even days, and totally devastate the Ukrainian forces.
Once there are no Ukrainians left to fight.
The Russian army will advance, stop, regroup, and repeat.
Russia has been using this tactic for months, and the Ukrainian's keep taking the bait and falling into the trap.
Ukraine's has lost the majority of its experienced soldiers and only has a small number of reserve personal to replace them.

Is it also a common tactic for Russian troops to die in droves and lose terrority, as part of their strategy?

 

[Deplorable Yankee]

Anyone know which Oblasts or parts of Ukraine thee Ukrainian military has attempted to back?

Anyone know if their first part of the counter-offensive was at like Kherson, or Crimea?

It was a complete disaster

A Quick and Dirty Analysis Of The Krain (Current)

OR: How we learned to stop worrying and love the Bomb

bigcountryexpat.substack.com

Where'd he get these numbers ...don't know

 

[luiza]

Anyone know which Oblasts or parts of Ukraine thee Ukrainian military has attempted to back?

Anyone know if their first part of the counter-offensive was at like Kherson, or Crimea?

Just glance at the daily Russian Ministry of Defence reports of the SMO and everything is revealed . It will exactly answer the question you raised .
And in considerably more geographical detail than you might imagine.
In a nutshell , US-Ukey action so far has been in around five thrust areas and has failed lamentably.
As others have reported, a standard Russian tactic has been to vacate small otherwise abandoned villages /hamlets , and retreat to higher ground .
They have then obliterated advancing troops trying to cross pre-mined open fields with their vastly superior artillery. It's as though the "Ukey" force is hell bent on losing with the biggest possible number of casualties -- men and ordnance .

 

[Litwin]

Anyone know which Oblasts or parts of Ukraine thee Ukrainian military has attempted to back?

Ukraine is 'finding Moscow 's vulnerabilities' | Maj. Gen. Rupert Jones​

 

[Litwin]

Oblasts

 

[para bellum]

Anyone know which Oblasts or parts of Ukraine thee Ukrainian military has attempted to back?

There are active battles in Luhansk Oblast between Kreminna-Svatove, and north towards Kramatorsk. Not a lot of movement, and the line been essentially static since the conclusion of the Kharkiv offensive last fall.

In Donetsk Oblast the AFU has made incremental gains around Bakhmut and the Velyka Novosilka area. They have yet to reach the main RF defensive line west of the port city of Berdyansk.

In Zaporizhzhia Oblast there are AFU advances between Lobkove-Orikhiv.

Anyone know if their first part of the counter-offensive was at like Kherson, or Crimea?

Kherson is the only relatively quiet place along the line of contact. There is active shelling from both sides, but no real movement of forces. It's been reported that the RF moved some of their units from Kherson to the V-N Donetsk area to provide reinforcements, and the AFU advances there have slowed in the last couple days.

Both sides are trying to get the other to commit operational reserves. Ukraine has committed 2 of it's 12 new Brigades to the offensive, and is holding the rest back for now.

No one can say where the main effort will be. Most people assume it will be a push towards the Azov coast, to split the Russian forces and isolate Kherson and Crimea. But the AFU doesn't always do the obvious thing- so don't be surprised if they do something unexpected...

 

[Silver Cat]

Is it also a common tactic for Russian troops to die in droves and lose terrority, as part of their strategy?

Actually, yes. That's how they defeated Hitler, Napoleon, Charles XII, Sigismond II and many others.
The only goal of peace-time Army is heroically die in the near-border battles, but buy enough time to start the mobilization. The only goal of mobilized Army is to die heroically in Russian territory, but buy enough time to put industrial production on the military rails and build the really effective war-time Army, which will finally crush the enemy.

 

[krichton]

Actually, yes. That's how they defeated Hitler, Napoleon, Charles XII, Sigismond II and many others.
The only goal of peace-time Army is heroically die in the near-border battles, but buy enough time to start the mobilization. The only goal of mobilized Army is to die heroically in Russian territory, but buy enough time to put industrial production on the military rails and build the really effective war-time Army, which will finally crush the enemy.

Russia has lost 70% of their past wars, and the only reason why they even stood a chance against Germany is because the US donated over 150 billion dollars of today's money to supply them with things they needed to fight the Germans. The Russian army is doomed.

 

[Silver Cat]

Russia has lost 70% of their past wars, and the only reason why they even stood a chance against Germany is because the US donated over 150 billion dollars of today's money to supply them with things they needed to fight the Germans. The Russian army is doomed.

Russia survived all previous wars, and even became the largest and the most powerful (in the terms of the total megatonnage) state in the world, and what is more important, they are just a speartip of the Shanghai block and BRICS.