By Free Republic | Created at 2024-12-31 15:30:45 | Updated at 2025-01-07 22:07:26
1 week ago
As Russian Troops Head For Kursk, Ukraine’s HIMARS Rockets Meet Them Halfway
Forbes ^ | 12/30/2024 | David Axe
Posted on 12/31/2024 7:24:27 AM PST by marcusmaximus
Something struck a group of Russian troops in Lgov, a town of 21,000 in western Russia’s Kursk Oblast, late Sunday or early Monday. “It’s terrible,” a bystander cried. “The guys are all in the bunker,” they added as the bunker burned.
A Ukrainian official insinuated the fire was the result of a Ukrainian raid, which would make sense. Lgov lies just 30 miles north of the town of Sudzha, the anchor of the 250-square-mile salient that Ukrainian forces carved out of Kursk back in August. It’s a key road and rail node for troops and supplies supporting the two-month-old Russian counteroffensive in Kursk.
The Ukrainians have targeted Lgov before, most notably on Christmas Day, when Ukrainian munitions—possibly from American-made High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems launchers—blew up a headquarters belonging to the 810th Naval Infantry Brigade, one of the lead units for the Russian counteroffensive.
That attack—a “fiery impression,” according to the Ukrainian Center for Strategic Communications—came just days before the Kremlin pulled the battered 810th Naval Infantry Brigade off the front line in order to replenish its losses.
Ukrainian strikes on Lgov help to explain why 50,000 or more Russians along with 12,000 North Korean reinforcements haven’t yet been able to eject 20,000 Ukrainians from Kursk, despite relentlessly attacking the Ukrainian salient from all sides for two months. Russia “is still battling on its own territory and has been unable to drive Ukraine out of Kursk Oblast,” Finnish analyst Joni Askola noted. “It's quite pathetic!”
But the Russians’ failures in Kursk aren’t just the result of their own incompetence. These failures are also the consequence of a successful campaign of deep strikes by Ukrainian forces.
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TOPICS: Chit/Chat
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To: marcusmaximus
It's time to roll out LOL David Axe LOL!!
Special Ukraine Sock STRONK!!!
2 posted on 12/31/2024 7:25:44 AM PST by kiryandil (No one in AZ that voted for Trump voted for Gallego )
To: marcusmaximus
3 posted on 12/31/2024 7:26:20 AM PST by kiryandil (No one in AZ that voted for Trump voted for Gallego )
To: marcusmaximus
4 posted on 12/31/2024 7:27:18 AM PST by kiryandil (No one in AZ that voted for Trump voted for Gallego )
To: marcusmaximus
Tell your mom to tell you to stop leavink your Special Ukraine Sock on the computer desk.
5 posted on 12/31/2024 7:27:55 AM PST by kiryandil (No one in AZ that voted for Trump voted for Gallego )
To: marcusmaximus
What this week’s check from US State Department doink?
6 posted on 12/31/2024 7:28:56 AM PST by kiryandil (No one in AZ that voted for Trump voted for Gallego )
To: kiryandil
OMG - finally PROOF of North Koreans in Ukraine. What gives it away is the sign between the two North Korean soldiers that has an arrow pointing left and says “Kiev, 400 km”.
I guess they’ve now PROVEN that there are North Korean soldiers in Ukraine.
7 posted on 12/31/2024 7:30:35 AM PST by BobL
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