Vietnam was the “television war.” Every night at 5:30 pm CST Walter Cronkite would introduce the reporter narrating the day’s news from Vietnam. Except it was over 24 in the past by then. Film was shot, flown to NYC, processed, edited, and aired a day or two after being made. Every night we caught up with the past.“Ukraine’s presidential adviser Oleksiy Arestovych said in a TV interview that only some 12,000 Russian soldiers remain active on the Kyiv front, and that 3,000 of them have been encircled, with another 4,000 nearly surrounded.“ https://t.co/HOHehpcokN
— Max Boot 🇺🇦 (@MaxBoot) March 24, 2022
"Belief you are winning."
— Mark Hertling (@MarkHertling) March 24, 2022
Today:
Reports of the "Bucha Pocket" north of Kyiv...UKR soldiers surrounding 10,000 RU troops N of the capital.
UKR Air Force (UAF) - with ground Air Defense - continuing to fight way above their weight.
A RU ship on fire in Berdyansk port. 15/ pic.twitter.com/zrDDI3sFWe
Forbes: Ukrainian army now has 43 more tanks than at the beginning of the war
— NEXTA (@nexta_tv) March 24, 2022
According to analysts, since the beginning of the war, #Russian army has lost 530 tanks, while the Armed Forces of #Ukraine have lost 74 of their own, but captured 117 enemy tanks. pic.twitter.com/RTlMc8mryf
NEW: Ukraine has begun a counteroffensive that is altering the shape of the battle with Russia.
— Cliff Levy (@cliffordlevy) March 24, 2022
The question is no longer how far Russian forces have advanced, but whether the Ukrainians are now pushing them back.
By @AndrewKramerNYT on the frontlineshttps://t.co/NyCUvKjHKZ
FSB colonel rtd & Russian extremist Igor Girkin complains that after 29 days of war, Russia has not achieved one single strategic goal in Ukraine, while the enemy successfully is mobilizing and has started counterattacking. Sounds right. https://t.co/SNVaa11guG
— Anders Åslund (@anders_aslund) March 25, 2022
Senior defense official: Russian forces appear to be in a "defensive crouch" around Kyiv, and focusing their aggressive activity in Donbass region. Indications that Russia is trying to move in reinforcements from Georgia. "They have stopped trying to move forward" toward Kyiv.
— Andrew Clevenger (@andclev) March 25, 2022
The Kremlin appears to have shifted is priority away from Kyiv and focusing its forces more aggressively on the Donbas in the east. Russia appears to hope that control of territory there will prove beneficial in negotiations, the Pentagon believes.
— Paul D. Shinkman (@PDShinkman) March 25, 2022
Russia signals scaling back of Ukraine aims as Biden visits Poland https://t.co/vWewhxjQWD
— Raw Story (@RawStory) March 25, 2022
What I’m watching, as it’s all significant:
— Mark Hertling (@MarkHertling) March 25, 2022
1)
-UKR forces attempting to surround the RU 35th Combined Arms Army (CAA) NW & N of Kyiv
-UKR forces counterattacking RU forces on the route from Sumy
-UKR forces mauling RU logistics columns attempting to relieve all these forces. 1/
3)
— Mark Hertling (@MarkHertling) March 25, 2022
-Indicators of any major RU attacks in either of the Donbas so-called “break-away republics.” Will RU attempt an attack (with relatively protected logistics support from within RU) S toward Mariupol, or will there be a push W ?from Donbas to Dnipro.
'Everything is bad!' Russian state TV devolves into 'screaming matches' over Putin's disastrous war https://t.co/O2hH9ZbCmc
— Raw Story (@RawStory) March 25, 2022
Military expert Igor Korotchenko gave a similarly somber analysis, and concluded that it could take decades for Russia to achieve its military objectives in Ukraine.
It's confusing not knowing what's online is information and what's only rumors or BS. When there's no gatekeeper everything gets in and it's often worse than when there are gatekeepers.
ReplyDeleteGood Lord, I hope this doesn't go on for years more than it's already gone one. When it is done, I don't see how they say no if Ukraine wants to join NATO.