UAF troops push to RF border in Kharkiv sector, reportedly fire into Russia

Kyiv Post ^ | Published May 13 at 11:45 am | Stefan Korshak

[GonzoII]

Official Ukrainian statements, independent news reports, local social media, and RF state-controlled news platforms on Friday said UAF advance elements had closed on Ukraine’s border with Russia at multiple locations, Fighting according to those reports was in progress for the Ukraine-side border villages of Lipsy, Vesele, Kozacha Lopan’, Pitomik and Russki Tishy, all to Kharkiv’s north.

….snip Video images made public by the RF state-controlled news platform Readovka on May 13 showed scattered mortar or artillery strikes purportedly hitting fields and homes near the Solokhi, some 10 km inside Russia. There was no outside confirmation of the bombardment, but both UAF-associated social media and RF-associated news platforms repeated reports that UAF infantry and light vehicles had reached the Russian border in the vicinity.

Another UAF advance to Kharkiv’s north-west, along the right bank of the Seviersky Donets river, was on Friday per multiple reports pushing infantry into the village Rubizhne, against moderate RF resistance. If captured, the village would give the Ukrainians control of a tactically-important bridge across the river, and potentially threaten an RF logistics and supply center less than 10 km distant….

[GonzoII]

Day by day......

[GonzoII]

"potentially threaten an RF logistics and supply center less than 10 km distant…. "

I would say so….

[Lurker]

Potty-Poot done effed up big time.

L

[DIRTYSECRET]

I’d send a few just to make them know they’re being lied to. Aim at bridges.

[WeaslesRippedMyFlesh]

I don’t get “the rules’

Russia invades Ukraine, but nobody can help because Russia might see it as an act of aggression?

Russia invades Ukraine, but Ukraine can only take the fight to the Ukraine/Russia border and dare not hit targets in Russia? ...not even to disrupt supply lines?

WTF? bomb fkng Moscow, bloody Vlads nose.

[nathanbedford]

Korea, Vietnam, and the Afghanistan war have made plain the disadvantages of waging war against an adversary operating from a sanctuary. So far, this war has been conducted from sanctuaries on the Russian side and from the NATO nations on the western side.

The Russians enjoy a geographical advantage if this sanctuary system were to continue because their sanctuary immediately abuts the act of war zone in Eastern Ukraine whereas Western allies have got to get their logistical supplies across the vast area of Ukraine potentially under fire.

Seems to me that bringing Russia under fire brings marginal tactical advantage to Ukraine but significantly increases the risk of wider war. On the other hand, it is in the interests of the Ukrainians to do just that.

[Paladin2]

Yep, target infrastructure within range from the border.

[Paladin2]

“WTF? bomb fkng Moscow, bloody Vlads nose.”

30 seconds over the Kremlin with a flight of drones.

[AnglePark]

Potty-Poot done effed up big time.

He sure did. The whole invasion has been a mystery to me -- it just didn't make any sense why he was doing it, from the start. But now he's shown the whole world that the Russian military is a joke, and over what?!

[RedMonqey]

Maybe because Moscow is out of reach of every Ukes weapons?

[rrrod]

Go home Putin and this all stops.

[GonzoII]

VIDEO REPORT: 73 Vehicles Destroyed and Marked/Pictured/Numbered at Pontoon Bridge…

[maro]

The problem is that in this wolfpack, when the lead wolf falters, he doesn’t get a gold watch and a pension. The new lead wolf disposes of him.

[Lurker]

“The whole invasion has been a mystery to me — it just didn’t make any sense why he was doing it, from the start.”

From the Russian point of view it makes a lot of sense. Russia is rotting from the inside out. Their population is shrinking, their empire is gone, other than oil and gas they have no industrial base to speak of, and the government is utterly corrupt and has been for generations.

They see themselves as surrounded by former vassal states that view them, quite righteously, with not only deep suspicion but outright hatred over the half century of brutal oppression the Russians inflicted on them.

They are incapable of looking inward at this point. So they have to push this insane fantasy that they’re surrounded by Nazis who want to strip them of their natural resources. Never mind that’s already happening to them by the gangsters running Russia.

They’re utterly convinced that Ukraine has no right to exist as an independent country free of Russian domination.

Add to that the fact that Russian society is built on lies and has been for over 100 years. Everyone lies to everyone else about virtually everything. This applies in spades to their military. Lieutenants lie to Captains, Captains lie to Majors, Majors lie to Colonels, Colonels lie to Generals, and the Generals lie to Putin who in turn lies back to them.

Toss in that since the fall of communism everyone has been stealing everything that wasn’t nailed down including military hardware and you’ve got a nearly perfect storm. Every readiness report, training report, and inventory report were lies. It’s why the tires on their vehicles failed in the field. It’s why they can’t get fuel for their tanks, it’s why the rations for their troops are decades out of date, and it’s why their soldiers are utterly unprepared for real combat.

So when an equally corrupt neighbor one tenth their size not only holds out against them but inflicts a staggering number of casualties on them they literally can’t process it.

This is a very dangerous time. Putin is becoming increasingly desperate. And desperate people react in wholly unpredictable ways.

L

[The Louiswu]

“I don’t get “the rules”

Right on
It worked for the US

[Renfrew]

“Russia invades Ukraine, but Ukraine can only take the fight to the Ukraine/Russia border and dare not hit targets in Russia? ...not even to disrupt supply lines?”

The problem is that this war becomes much harder if Russia fully mobilizes, which their people would accept if there are attacks in Russia.

It’s the same for us. If the Taliban launch an attack on an American base in Afghanistan the American public don’t much care.

But if the Taliban launch an attack on an American base in North Carolina that would lead to a swift escalation on our side.

[Lurker]

“Go home Putin and this all stops.”

Very true. But Putin can’t go back. He’s put himself in a trick bag. If he withdraws his troops he won’t live out the month. If he orders a nuclear strike of any kind his own Generals will kill him. They’re evil but they’re not stupid. They know NATO and the West would have to respond and respond in kind.

Not even this bunch of feckless dunderheads can allow a nuclear detonation in Europe to go unanswered.

So we are in a very dangerous time.

L

[rrrod]

Excellent.

[Renfrew]

“He sure did. The whole invasion has been a mystery to me — it just didn’t make any sense why he was doing it, from the start. But now he’s shown the whole world that the Russian military is a joke, and over what?!”

It’s the problem with rulers who have been in power too long. The longer they are in office the more disconnected from reality they become and they start to believe their own propaganda.

Putin believed that the Russian Army was the vaunted force his generals told him it was and had no way of knowing the trucks didn’t have tires.

[rrrod]

Good point. The world is on the verge of a major war due to Putin. Wish there was an easy way to undo this crap.