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Another excellent article from the Spectator, naturally the usual riff raff and detritus are banned.
The Ukrainian armed forces launched a long-awaited offensive on Kherson this week.
However, the counter-offensive was signalled for so long by both Ukrainian and western sources that the Russian army had plenty of time to significantly reinforce its positions there, meaning that the Kherson front is now more heavily manned by Russian troops than most other stretches of the frontline.
Ukrainian government sources have requested a total blackout of media reports from the frontlines so exact details are sparse. But what is clear is that the Russian movement of forces has already had two positive effects for Ukraine, even before the actual counter-offensive operation was launched.
The first has been to further reduce the Russian army’s capacity to conduct large-scale offensive operations against Ukrainian positions in the Donbas by diverting already depleted and overstretched units, artillery and other things like electronic warfare equipment and air defences down south to defend Kherson. In other words, signalling a southern counter-offensive has forced the Russian army’s limited mobile reserve forces to be deployed to a largely defensive position ahead of the Ukrainian offensive. This has handed Ukraine the initiative for arguably the first time since the invasion began in February, although tactical-level Russian offensive activity continues in the Avdiivka and Bakhmut areas of the southern Donbas with some local success.
The second success of the Ukrainian strategy is that in addition to reducing offensive pressure in the Donbas by forcing the Russian army to redeploy key forces south, many of the Russian units now in Kherson have had their offensive capabilities reduced – and are now potentially more vulnerable than anywhere else on the frontlines. This is because the key Russian-occupied city of Kherson and its surrounding area are on the western bank of the Dnipro river, on the same side as the Ukrainian army.
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/ukraine-s-kherson-offensive-may-have-already-been-a-success
Another excellent article from the Spectator, naturally the usual riff raff and detritus are banned.
The Ukrainian armed forces launched a long-awaited offensive on Kherson this week.
However, the counter-offensive was signalled for so long by both Ukrainian and western sources that the Russian army had plenty of time to significantly reinforce its positions there, meaning that the Kherson front is now more heavily manned by Russian troops than most other stretches of the frontline.
Ukrainian government sources have requested a total blackout of media reports from the frontlines so exact details are sparse. But what is clear is that the Russian movement of forces has already had two positive effects for Ukraine, even before the actual counter-offensive operation was launched.
The first has been to further reduce the Russian army’s capacity to conduct large-scale offensive operations against Ukrainian positions in the Donbas by diverting already depleted and overstretched units, artillery and other things like electronic warfare equipment and air defences down south to defend Kherson. In other words, signalling a southern counter-offensive has forced the Russian army’s limited mobile reserve forces to be deployed to a largely defensive position ahead of the Ukrainian offensive. This has handed Ukraine the initiative for arguably the first time since the invasion began in February, although tactical-level Russian offensive activity continues in the Avdiivka and Bakhmut areas of the southern Donbas with some local success.
The second success of the Ukrainian strategy is that in addition to reducing offensive pressure in the Donbas by forcing the Russian army to redeploy key forces south, many of the Russian units now in Kherson have had their offensive capabilities reduced – and are now potentially more vulnerable than anywhere else on the frontlines. This is because the key Russian-occupied city of Kherson and its surrounding area are on the western bank of the Dnipro river, on the same side as the Ukrainian army.
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/ukraine-s-kherson-offensive-may-have-already-been-a-success