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| Russia gives up on taking Kiev - militaryland sitrep |
| 2022-04-03 |
| more at link Russia has withdrawn almost their whole army that was attacking Kiev from the North. Russia's forces in the NE are also under Ukraine counterattack. Presumably Russia will take their troops that were in the N and NE and deploy them in the East but most analysts think these units are too badly mauled to be effective in the short term. Russia is close to taking Mariupol completely and will probably do so sometime in the next 7 days. |
| Posted by:Lord Garth |
| #4 Ref #2: You sir, are not crazy. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2022-04-03 18:32 |
| #3 Hoping the 'roid rage doesn't cause him to test a tiny nuke somewhere. |
| Posted by: Mullah Richard 2022-04-03 18:09 |
| #2 My friend (who reads all the military reports a civilian can read) thinks I'm crazy but I think Putin never expected to hold the entire Ukraine and that was just an extra grab to make the peace treaty negotiations easy. As is I suspect he'll be given the eastern areas and Crimean to stop the war. So the plan (if that was the plan) succeeded even though the blowback of being an international pariah and economically hobbled were probably far worse than Putin expected. |
| Posted by: ruprecht 2022-04-03 16:16 |
| #1 Possibly, but I still haven't seen the Russian Operations Order and neither would I be anxious to mistake what hasn't happened yet with what won't or can't yet happen. |
| Posted by: Cesare 2022-04-03 11:24 |