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The Russians don’t have the flexibility or resource to manage both ends of the salient.
The bombing should have alerted the Ukrainians to what was happening, but the Russian attack seems to have surprised them. Where was the air support so willingly provided in the Liptsy area or the resources when this attack was launched?
Further south at Urazhine, which this time last year the Ukrainians were slowly taking during their failed summer offensive, the Russians have made significant gains, taking back most of it over several weeks.
In other areas small but persistent Russian gains keep eating away at the front lines.
We often laugh at the Russians and their primitive, careless and uncivilised behaviour, their brutality and lack of humanity. We make defensive success of how the Ukrainians have managed to deal with the latest Russian surprise attack - even when it was signalled a week or more in advance and yet nothing was done to disrupt it or seemingly plan for it, let alone react to it in a way that could have stopped it before it got so deeply into the defences it couldn’t be dislodged.
Ukraine has some very good commanders - but they are few and far between. Whoever is mismanaging the New York problem needs replacing - it should never have been allowed to get this far.

Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦!
‘The Analyst’ MilStratOnX