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| Directions of strike: the Pentagon is preparing the Armed Forces of Ukraine for the spring offensive |
| 2023-03-19 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited by Victoria Nikiforova [RIA] "Ukraine has no more time to waste," US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin sternly reminded his native troops immediately after the meeting of the Ukraine Defense Contact Group. Independent kicks are driven on the offensive. The date has already been set: the end of April - the beginning of May. The Pentagon conveyed through the media its dissatisfaction with the fact that the Kiev regime continues to fill up with corpses Artyomovsk , although Austin personally believes that this city is of no strategic importance and it is time to fill up other points on the map with corpses. Already officially, the US military elite admits that during the year of the conflict, the Armed Forces of Ukraine lost more than 100 thousand people killed, and they knocked out the best and most experienced military. These monstrous sacrifices did not lead to anything - only to the loss of about a fifth of the entire territory of the former Ukraine. But it hurts us to read the numbers of those killed, in Washington, nobody cares. Ukrainian soldiers must continue to fight - this is the main message of the Pentagon. The fact is that in the American establishment an order has matured that Kiev should give a result. Was money poured in, weapons sent, soldiers trained? Now pay up. Native lives are accepted as a means of payment. According to a source, the Pentagon leadership, who shared information with the influential publication Politico, has been supplying Western weapons to Ukraine for the past four or five months precisely in anticipation of the spring offensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Hundreds of tanks and armored vehicles were sent there, as well as vehicles for building bridges. Thousands of soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine have been trained at NATO training grounds. A fair supply of 155-mm shells, which were so lacking in winter, is also provided. Proxy troops are not yet given planes, but American medium-range missiles are being added to the MiGs. And, of course, the American masters provide the Armed Forces with a full range of intelligence. In what directions are the Armed Forces of Ukraine going to attack? The Pentagon constantly assures that the development of a strategy is the business of Kyiv. However, whoever has dinner with a girl dances her. The American military and intelligence officials are quite openly discussing in the press where the Armed Forces should be thrown. In the top areas for the offensive - Crimea, Melitopol , Mariupol. As for Crimea, retired General Ben Hodges is very excited , who still cannot forget how, when he was commander of the allied land army, the peninsula elegantly sailed to Russia , and NATO intelligence missed this incident. His idea is that the Vesushniks cross the Dnieper, capture the entire Kherson region and fire at the Crimea with Haimars, then the Black Sea Fleet and the Saki airfield will be under threat. Many see this plan as unrealistic: it is hard to imagine that the Ukrainians will be able to successfully cross the Dnieper under the fire of our artillery. However, intelligence on the Crimea and the work of its air defense is being collected very diligently - this is exactly what the American Reaper drone, which recently drowned in the Black Sea, was doing. The second direction is the coast of the Sea of ​​\u200b\u200bAzov . Or Berdyansk through Melitopol, or Mariupol through Volnovakha . Moreover, the attack on Mariupol will be at the same time a move in the information war - it was here that the most stubborn local Nazis stuck out at Azovstal. From the coast of the Sea of ​​Azov, it is planned to bombard the Crimean bridge with Haimars in an attempt to isolate the peninsula in this way. Both options involve cutting off the supply lines for our troops and blocking the "corridor to the Crimea." Some analysts believe that the Ukrainian army will have enough strength to strike in two directions at once - both to the south and towards the Sea of ​​Azov. Perhaps there are other alleged directions of impact, they just do not shine in the media yet. Denis Pushilin , acting head of the DPR, said that the Ukrainians are accumulating troops in Chasov Yar near Artemivsk. It turns out that the Armed Forces of Ukraine can organize their coveted counteroffensive there as well. It will also be good for their propaganda - like they defended Bakhmut. Militarily, these plans look like dangerous folly. The sad thing, however, is that when the counteroffensive fails, it will also be a "result" for Zelenskiy and his masters. Kiev Pennywise will run to brag about the number of dead, speculate on their blood, ask for new money and weapons. Washington will get a reason to put pressure on European vassals - that's, they say, how well the Ukrainians are dying, but what are you doing? In general, the Pentagon-planned spring offensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine should not be taken lightly. We can have an undeniable advantage over the Ukrainian army in technology, artillery, and aviation. The scale of our economies and their condition are simply incomparable. However, the Kyiv regime has one advantage - they simply throw their citizens to death with painful sadism. And those with some kind of incomprehensible masochism are dying for the interests of Mark Milli , Lloyd Austin and other people extremely distant from them. And this is the weapon the Zelensky regime will use to the end. Well, in case the proxy troops fail, the American regime has already laid straws for itself. In a recent report by the RAND Corporation, military analysts remind that in the Ukrainian conflict, the interests of the United States for the US leadership should come first. However, a long war, it turns out, is not in their interests - too expensive, too dangerous and there is no way to switch to taming China. This means that Washington must urgently convince Kyiv to put up with territorial losses and conclude a bad peace, which, as you know, is better than a good quarrel. The Ukrainians are being sent a transparent signal from across the ocean: you can fight for our interests, but as soon as our interests change, we will leave you and not even remember you. Promise does not mean marriage. It is amazing how Little Russians constantly dream of outsmarting everyone, and then they fall into the most simple, it would seem, traps. The counterattack trap could be their last. |
| Posted by:badanov |
| #4 ^1 a true quagmire. |
| Posted by: Dale 2023-03-19 16:22 |
| #3 A couple of days ago, there was a video of an infantry soldier in a trench walking about in a non-panic mode in spite of all sorts of shots being fired in his direction. He would stop every now and then and fire his rifle at something; then turn around and "fiddle" with somethin in the trench. Would love to know what happened to him. |
| Posted by: Jise Elmeang4932 2023-03-19 12:24 |
| #2 God loves the infantry. |
| Posted by: badanov 2023-03-19 10:23 |
| #1 A spring offensive, eh? Corrections welcome, but isn't spring a notoriously muddy time in Ukraine? If it comes to muddy roads and fields vs armored vehicles, my money is on the mud. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2023-03-19 10:13 |