Posted on 01/11/2023 9:53:38 AM PST by JonPreston
The crackle of gunfire and roar of armoured vehicles reverberated around sleepy west Ukrainian towns near the Belarusian border on Wednesday as Kyiv's forces trained for the threat of a fresh assault across a new front in the north.
Ukraine fears Russia could build up forces on the territory of its Belarusian ally before striking in the northwest or even try to drive towards Kyiv as it did when it invaded last February.
By reopening a northern front, Russia would stretch Kyiv's forces, which have been focused for months on battles raging in the east and south, forcing it to divert troops to the north.
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First Soledar is abandoned, leaving Putin knee-deep in salt and now a second front being opened, manned by what remains of the Ukrainian women and children.
Why on earth did youse guys stick with this Zelenskyy dope?
Why do they need war-games?
They got a real hot one that will afford them all the practice they want.
When the toilet flushes on the EuroTurds and their NAFO buddies, it can't be too soon.
Oh well, they got to see him last night on the Golden Globs in a new more fancy shirt reassuring all us suckers he isn’t workin’ for WWIII.
But....he still wants some money and stuff.
I don't really know either, but I'd guess they want to practice a particular tactic that they don't use in other parts of the war.
The appointment of Gerasimov says they’re getting ready to fight everybody who wants to fight. Or they’re ready now.
No more sitting on the sidelines of the US led former state of Ukraine with weapons saying “here you take them”.
“The need to “raise the operation command level” was linked to an “increased scale of the combat missions,” and the need for closer coordination between various services and branches of the armed forces, the ministry said.”
That tactic is called “ let them know we know they might be entering this war and we are mighty”.
Calling it war games makes it clear they aren’t attacking.
Yeah, you’re probably going to see an attack from Belarus when Bakhmut gets very close to falling. Just looking at the information coming out of Russia, it seems they want to look as flummoxed and indecisive as possible, but it seems they’re waiting for the cold wave to hit Europe. Seems like the real cold comes in a week.
Yesterday Col McGregor discussed estimates of strength in that area. He said due to the Bakhmut/Crimea/Eastern Ukraine fighting much strength has been moved away.
He said about 3 combat effective Uke Brigades would cover the entire N front and between the Russians and Belarusians they would have about 10 DIVISIONS of combat ready units..not counting much more support forces. So say 3 Brigades to a division that’s about 10-1 odds.
Forecasts call for a slight warm up in 4 days or so. Could they be ready to launch their long predicted winter offensive? I mean as in now/tomorrow before the ground has a chance to thaw again? How many and how fast could Ukraine move reserves in?
What are you afraid of? The Ukrainians are just doing war games, you know, exercises.
They’re absolutely not going to invade Russia or Belarus.
Nope. Not at all. Why would anyone lie about such a thing?
Watching you is high comedy, not fear. Please continue.
Wow, they have enough spare men and arms to play war games while they’re in an actual war
What if those salt caves was where they were storing these American weapons that they been getting?
Another word for “war games” is “training”. Is it really a surprise that the Ukrainians want to train their soldiers? Perhaps it’s a foreign concept for the Russians.
Just Ukes checkin' out locals whom they can use for Human Shields and False Flag Atrocities they know Western Media will blame on Russians.
Like when Poland Illegally blocked and killed Migrants at the Belarus border, and blamed Russia for the deaths.
War games, when there’s a real one going on? They should be out killing Russian invaders.
Well if you want to go that route The fact that they need more training implies that they are unprepared for the war that they are in.
You apparently have never served in the military. You never stop training.
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