Just an observation. They can barely conduct normal attacks. Crossing the Dnieper is equivalent to a full scale amphibious assualt.
Our own massive Army in WWII looked at crossing the Rhine as a giant operation.
The Ukes have no capability in that regard to do a forcible amphib assault. When they tried a small amphib raid on the Zap Nuclear plant, they were annihilated. Just a fact. The Russian are much bigger and experienced and they struggled with forced crossings of much smaller rivers.
Cheerlead all you want, but the Russians have pulled back to a permanent defensive border and one that is indeed... very defensible and beyond Uke capability.
I know.. i know... homeland, 10 feet tall, love of the Reich etc.. brave Zelinsky. But them are the facts.
And what about Donetsk and Luhansk? Are they beyond Uke capability?
“the Russians have pulled back to a permanent defensive border”
Using the word “Permanent”, like Putin’s use of the word “Forever” in his announcing his annexation of Kherson, is just hubris.
With well over 50% of the land that Russia occupied during this year’s invasion already liberated, and the main supply lines to Zaporizhzhia Oblast and Crimea already cut or under under Ukrainian fire control; “Permanent” and “Forever” are now just laughable.
The only people still afraid of the Russian Military, are Russian men between the ages of 16-65.
Six more months of attrition like this, and Russia’s remaining conventional Military power is going to be on par with that of Greece.
Putin did that.
“They can barely conduct normal attacks.”
So Russia is getting pushed back by an army of incompetents, that’s your grand thesis in a nutshell?
“When they tried a small amphib raid on the Zap Nuclear plant, they were annihilated.”
The nuclear plant is a small target and the river is a very large one that the Ukes could choose to cross at any point. And the Russians have shown they’re stretched too thin to defend the whole front, so it’s just a matter of time for the Ukes to find a point weak enough to cross and make a beachhead, then things will continue going badly for Russia I think.