After a first phase marked by slow progress and heavy equipment losses, Ukraine has regrouped to launch a second, more forceful thrust to reclaim its territory. The purpose of the new counteroffensive is to smash through Russia’s fortified positions in the Zaporizhzhia region on the occupied nation’s eastern border.
If the Ukrainian charge can pry an opening in the Russian defenses and reach the Azov Sea, the Kremlin could see its grip on the four regions it illegally annexed last year weakened by the time cold weather arrives and the fighting slows.
How embarrassing. A couple of days ago, we were witnessing the “main thrust” of the doomed spring counteroffensive of the US/EU/NATO proxy army in Ukraine. Now, I guess, our imperial war planners have realized their own failure, and so we are supposed to pretend like a completely different counteroffensive has been planned and launched. But it’s the exact same thing. And it’s still going to fail.
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