UKRAINE PART FIVE The Ukraine front has been more or less static for the last few months. The Russians did eventually capture Bakhmut, of no strategic importance in itself but placed on a north-south road which enabled the Ukrainians to move troops rapidly up or down the front. A Ukrainian counter attack to retake it is in progress now. There was much talk about a spring offensive. Spring is long gone and we are well into summer, but no country and no army is going to broadcast its intentions to the world, so there will continue to be much disinformation, dissemblement, obfuscation and bluff. A Ukrainian offensive will come, as they must recover that portion of their country which has been captured and is occupied by Russia, but it will not come until they are ready, and that means having the armour, the artillery, the engineers, the infantry and the air all integrated, equipped, trained and with logistic support in place.
The Ukraine army is still very much in the expansion stage (the UK is training 2400 Ukrainian army recruits every five weeks) and any offensive will inevitably be a slow process. In regard to the extraordinary behaviour of Prigozhin and Wagner we wait and see - I suspect Wagner will not go quietly, and in any case most of their efforts are in Africa, but if I was Prigozhin I would make sure to lock my bedroom door at night!
Very good update! I have read that there are several divisions that have not yet been activated during this probing phase of the counteroffensive; do you see those units as having an impact? And, Prigozhin... hoo boy, going to need to wait a week or so more to see where that thing is headed!
The Ukraine army is still very much in the expansion stage (the UK is training 2400 Ukrainian army recruits every five weeks) and any offensive will inevitably be a slow process. In regard to the extraordinary behaviour of Prigozhin and Wagner we wait and see - I suspect Wagner will not go quietly, and in any case most of their efforts are in Africa, but if I was Prigozhin I would make sure to lock my bedroom door at night!
Very good update! I have read that there are several divisions that have not yet been activated during this probing phase of the counteroffensive; do you see those units as having an impact? And, Prigozhin... hoo boy, going to need to wait a week or so more to see where that thing is headed!