by MoA
The Ukrainian army, egged on by its U.S. controllers, had put most of its resource into the static defense of the Bakhmut (Artyomovsk) – Soledar sector of the eastern front. An insane number of Ukrainian brigades, though many partially depleted, were concentrated on that 50 kilometer long front. This left other sectors nearly empty of Ukrainian troops.
Source: Military Land Deployment Map – bigger
I count the equivalent of some 27 brigade size formations in that area. The usual size of a brigade is some 3,000 to 4,000 men with hundreds of all kinds of vehicles. If all brigades had their full strength that force would count as 97,500 men. In a recent interview the Ukrainian military commander Zaluzhny said that his army has 200,000 men trained to fight with 500,000 more having other functions or currently being trained. The forces which are currently getting mauled in the Bakhmut area constitute 50% of Ukraine’s battle ready forces.
On the southern and northern sectors of the battle-line the Ukrainian forces have been thinned out and are only able to defend against minor forces.
The Ukrainian forces in the north and south are in the same position Russian troops had been in when the Ukrainian army last year launched a blitz attack in the Kharkiv region. The Russian screening force of some 2,000 boarder guards and federal police retreated and used its artillery to destroy the oncoming Ukrainian forces. The attack ran out of power and came to a halt after progressing some 70 kilometers on a rather large front. But Ukraine no longer has, unlike the Russians at that time, the artillery that is need to stop a larger thrust.
The big Ukrainian concentration in Bakhmut is now in an operational encirclement. The Russian forces have progressed north and south of the city and their artillery can easily control the western exit roads of Bakhmut. This a Verdun like situation. Russian artillery is by far numerical superior and can slaughter the Ukrainian troops at will. Even the U.S. military is now suggesting that Ukraine should give up on that city. Should the government in Kiev agree to that it will be a retreat under fire with likely high casualties. Not retreating though will make things even worse.
Source: Live UA Map – bigger
The Ukrainian concentration on Bakhmut put its other frontlines into jeopardy. I and others have suggested for quite some time that the Russian forces will use the southern Zaporizhia region for a large thrust into the far back of the Ukrainian forces around Bakhmut.The Russian moves against the third and fourth Ukrainian defense lines will likely be supported by a move from the south that will liberate the rest of the Zaporiziha and Donetsk oblast.Aside from those operations the Russian command has sufficient number of troops available to run another major attack. This could come from the north into the Kharkiv region behind the Ukrainian troops currently attacking the Russian lines further east.
Source: Live UA Map – bigger
The Military Land Deployment map, sympathetic to the Ukrainian side, shows just three Territorial Defense brigades covering a 100 kilometer long southern defense line. These brigades are infantry rich but not mobile. They have only little heavy equipment. The Ukrainian 65th Mechanized Brigade is the only capable force in the area. It is screening Zaporizhzhia city but has been heavily bleeding it its position for quite a while.
One Motorized Infantry brigade, the 56th, was added to the southern front some six days ago. Back in August this brigade had been severely mauled in its defense of Peski at the eastern front. It has since been reconstituted with new conscripts and a smorgasbord of ‘western’ delivered equipment. It can not be regarded as a fully capable unit.
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There is no Ukrainian artillery brigade in the sector. There are thereby no counter-artillery capabilities available.
The attacking Russian force is the 58th army of the Russian Federation. These are not lightly armored, air deployable VDV forces like those who fought around the Hostomel Airport airport near Kiev. These are not militia of the Donbas republics seen on the eastern front. These are not Chechen forces storming Mariupol. These are not the Wagner mercenaries surrounding Bakhmut.
This is the real Russian army, the Red one, with all its heavy resources and capabilities to wage combined arms warfare.
The first probing Russian attacks in the area were launched two days ago. The Ukrainian lines immediately broke down and the Russian forces advanced some 5 kilometer on the very first day. Yesterday they advanced further.
Everything in red and yellow north of the closed red line are recent Russian advances.
Source: ISW – bigger
A few weeks ago, in an interview with the Economist, the Ukrainian army commander general Zaluzhny called a Russian attack at this time the “worst” possible situation:
We’ll see how the NATO forces fighting Ukraine do…
The article is bullshit, written for distribution by the pro-Putin fifth column to their US target audience. Putin will be deposed or dead before this is over. Ultimately, his threats of nuclear escalation are what will result in his removal. His costly aggression against Ukraine is gaining Russia nothing, while nuclear escalation could quickly cost Russia everything—so what’s the benefit of keeping him in power?
One bullet could end this.
In other words, you can’t offer a rational rebuttal to anything I said.
You scree’ed nothing to refute, oh I dont like this propaganda isnt a rebuttle of the article.Dont feel bad bro we laugh at you all the time, always have. Tis the time for the Russians to advance when the ground is frozen solid for their large equipment to roll over.

Zelensky isnt bragging of the advances, great wins on the battle field, hes only begging for more money, while his top advisors resign.
Actually, what I said is entirely logical.
Putin has become a serious liability to too many powerful people in Russia. He’s now offering Russia an indefinite continuation of an enormously costly, increasingly unpopular war, and suggesting that he might go nuclear if he loses, which could destroy Russia entirely.
If Putin “wins”, the result would be endless asymmetrical warfare conducted inside Russia by a Russian-speaking resistance situated on the Russian border, supplied with intelligence and material support from the West. What an effin’ reward THAT would be.
Who gives a shit. Let him have Ukraine. Not our problem. Let Europe figure it out.
Our enemy is the CCP. The CCP controls biden.
History tells us again and again what happens when you give people like Putin what they want. Either we learn, or the lesson is repeated. The earlier such people are stopped, the better.
History tells us much, such as what happens when you let a small insurrectionist minority get bought off by bigger interests, as they whip up criminals, topple statues, rig elections, stage coups, and try to take the weapons away from their citizens.
I’d be more worried about how the rest of us will view you in the few years, when your failed insurrection is reckoned with, greg.
Putin is the least of your worries.
Putin is an unstable player with a nuclear arsenal big enough to end human civilization, who has painted himself into a corner. I’d say he’s presently Worry #1.
The deep state is taking out Biden.
Comment.
The deep state is taking out Biden.
Comment on this, NOW!
greg cannot comment about biden. No one is coming to bidens defense because the idiot has served his purpose.
greg won’t comment on Biden, the WEF and Schwab, or anything not on his list.
He’s an enemy combatant.
He can’t believe the deep state would turn on one of the prime conspirators, not realizing that they are not allied to our country but to the World Government.
Putin was baited into a war by the West.
Why???
You’re boy Biden is getting flushed.
Why, son?
ANSWER ME, BOY!
So it biden. What is your point?
The CCP, bidens handlers are the ones who have made it clear they seek world dominance. Do try to keep up with the geopolitical issues of the day.
Putin is small potatoes fool.
China has serious problems of its own to deal with.
The CCP seeks to conquer America, not Russia.
Come back to the discussion when you are more informed geopolitically.
China isn’t a significant country. They are done as a nation.
And if China faces severe financial hardships, what do you suppose they’ll do? Just give up or take the rest of the world down with it? Idiot Biden has emboldened them with his weakness and incompetence and he is on their payroll. The left has allowed the CCP to steal every bit of technology they want from us. China’s problems just makes them more dangerous.
Corporate America moved manufacturing technology to China to maximize profits, not the Democratic Party. How, exactly, did the left “allow” technology theft?
Because the CCP has been paying off primarily Democrats to turn a blind eye to their IP theft.
China isn’t good at tech, and they haven’t grown technologically in about 15 years.
And you have presented the evidence of this many times, no doubt, so there’s no need to do so again?
China is DAMN GOOD at tech. They place great emphasis on technical skills, math, and sciences. China ranks among the top ten nations for the population’s average IQ (104.1). Sad to say, the USA now ranks 29th (97.43), a continuing downward trend. We’re allowing ourselves become fat, lazy, and stupid. Nobody is doing it to us. We’re doing it to ourselves.
China’s coming problems are demographic—a declining population, with a rising average age.
Average IQ by Country (2023)
Who is pushing CRT, transgenderism and how to hate America?
The answer; democrats and the leftist/marxist ideology.
So why is China considered an “emerging economy” by the climate hucksters? Oh… that’s right. Because if anyone stands up to China, they get their pay cut.
Once again, thank a Democrat. The ill-conceived and considered school shutdowns aside, which set education back years, it is the left that pushes idiotic curricula that has nothing to do with education and everything to do with indoctrination. All this gender confusion bullshit being pushed BY THE LEFT does nothing but confuse the mind and retard the intellect. We don’t know how long CRT insanity has been pushed BY THE LEFT; that was only accidentally discovered when the left shut down in-person learning. “Math is racist”… who promotes that stupidity? Yeah… THE LEFT.
The left pushes the ideology that education is racist. The left turns fertile minds into ideological wastelands. The left wants obedient machines, not thinking individuals.
They moved to PRESERVE profits. Democrats raised taxes and imposed harsh and costly regulations upon them to the point that unless they moved overseas they could not complete with foreign companies. Note that when Trump cut regulations, many moved BACK.
Who besides Trump has held China accountable for intellectual property theft? While Trump was trying to impose fairer trade agreements with China, Democrats were undercutting his authority by constantly investigating him (something they now see as “political”). Do you not recall Clinton providing rocket and satellite technology to China?
The left will NOT confront China and their espionage inroads. Swalwell, Feinstein, Hunter, idiot Biden, God knows who else have been compromised by the CCP. Idiot Biden is DEEPLY compromised and makes no effort to curtail the Chinese influence in every aspect of our national life.
China is dead as a nation.
Now, let’s talk about how your “team” is now publicly removing Biden, after they did so much to install him.
Why?
Here’s your people, doing what they do in Atlanta.
The Left is violent, the Right is…tired of this.
No. You are a complete moron.
Russia is winning the war. They play the long game, and they have no other choice than to keep going.
Putin is irrelevant. They will keep going even if Putin dies.
You’re a coward because you won’t tell us why this won’t end the US, as well.
That’s what you were trying to say. You’re welcome.
It would end everybody. Any survivors would be trying to work their way back from the stone age while avoiding radioactive environments. That’s the ultimate threat that Putin represents, while offering no clear benefit to anyone. That’s why I’m thinking his days are numbered.
Good. Thanks for admitting that, son.
Putin isn’t threatening nuclear war.
Biden is. He’s the threat to us all, and being removed by your Deep State.
Any comment on that?
BIDEN IS ACTIVELY BEING REMOVED BY THE FORCES WHO INSTALLED HIM. WE’RE WATCHING IT IN REAL TIME.
ANY COMMENT ON THAT, GREG???
You are a raving lunatic.
I’m not the one who is raving. I’m simply pointing things out, and saying how they logically add up. No one seems to want to deal with things logically.
I’m not sure why you have such a strong need to see things work out well for Putin. I suspect Trump’s admiration for the bastard has something to do with it. There’s no logical reason that I can see. It all seems to be emotional.
Emotionally, on a gut level, I detest Putin and everything he stands for. My emotional response goes hand in hand with what history and logic tell me.
You are pointing out nothing. All you have is spin and propaganda, fear porn.
Nope. Why is Putin likely to be removed? I’ve laid everything out in simple, logical steps. Fear porn? Your only rationalization for letting Putin have is way is fear. Give in to that, and you’ll ALWAYS live as a slave to fear. Sorry about that.
Comment about Biden. He’s being taken out by the people who installed him. It’s obvious.
You lay out nothing. You’re a coward.
I’ve wasted enough of my time already, without repeating what I’ve said already.
You have said nothing. All o the time you spend here is a waste of your time. Get a hobby that challenges you.
Why is Biden being removed?
IN light of that, are you ready to admit he was installed?
Why do you care so much about Putin? Why can’t you actually discuss world events that matter, such as the fact we have a puppet that was installed who is now publicly being taken down?
Why is Biden being taken out now?
Why don’t you care that Biden left 84 Billion in Afghanistan, then paid 100 B to Ukraine without any tracking of the funds?
Are you ready to admit you’re dead wrong, or you are actually one of our most vile enemies??
WHY IS BIDEN BEING REMOVED?
greg, you haven’t talked about Biden. His own people are bringing out things that are meant to remove him.
The Deep State, who rigged an election and brought us J6th are now removing him.
Why???
We’ll be asking you the same question over time.
Be prepared, puppy.
Resist the Devil, and he will flee…
If that were true, you’d have an original opinion on this and not what the media all parrot at the same time, their “reaction” provided by the regime.
Trump held Putin in check.
Biden didn’t.
And now Biden is getting pulled because he’s an installed puppet.
Comment on that, you pig.
DO IT.
Otherwise, you reason for being he is completely moot.
For one, Biden is threatening nuclear escalation.
Not Putin.
And I’m not sure if you’re stupid or being paid to lie, but NUCLEAR ESCALATION WILL END THE UNITED STATES AS WELL AS RUSSIA.
There’s literally thousands of would-be Putins who would fill his shoes and continue the war.
When one monkey pisses on an electrical cable and gets electrocuted, the next monkey in line is less likely to repeat the error.
Really pissing monkeys, you sound vaxxed.
If we were talking about monkeys, sure.
But we’re talking about Russians, son.
Russians are smarter than monkeys. Putin would most likely be replaced by someone who would put all the blame on Putin. There would still be endless money to be made normalizing relations with Europe and supplying gas and oil.
So greg, the lie you’re speading that “it’s just one guy, and if we kill Putin the war is over” is a long, long dead propaganda point.
Get something new, you pig.
You people are riding a tiger and you know it. You can’t get off…because it…we….will eat you.
biden has committed treason against the United States. He should be removed from the illegitimate office in which he was installed.
Endless money money raining from the skies printed faster than Scott tissue makes toilet paper. Thats Progressive economics and TP would be more valuable in weight than the money. Europe is broke pal, the US is broke, hell they are smuggling eggs across the border all because of ignorant progressives do not understand how things work. Murder all the chickens, tax on cow farts. Ever heard of wikileaks?
Think they didnt know where Putins line in the sand was?
Thosands dead and wounded for their blood sacrifice its a death cult.
https://thefreethoughtproject.com/antiwar/wikileaks-cia-docs-show-us-knew-they-were-provoking-russia-into-war-with-ukraine
And whoever this is using the “greg” account, you don’t sound like the usual greg at all.
At least TRY to convince us this isn’t a government-run asshole account, with you?
Guessed it. You are all about peanut butter monkeys.
Biden will be removed long before Putin is.
They will let him give the state of the union rambling and then they pull out the hook and have him resign for medical reasons.
Russia is winning.
A Page Turns
The above was written by Jim Kunstler, who has stated that the Republican Party is “a gang of hypocritical, pietistic sadists, seeking pleasure in the suffering of others while pretending to be Christians, devoid of sympathy, empathy, or any inclination to simple human kindness, constant breakers of the Golden Rule, enemies of the common good.”
Perfect description of corrupt, pedophilic, anti-American Democrats… with idiot Biden at the head.