By Free Republic | Created at 2024-11-20 19:34:57 | Updated at 2024-11-22 19:07:57
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Russia Intensifies Assaults on an Exhausted Ukraine
The New York Times ^ | Nov. 20, 2024 | Marc Santora
Posted on 11/20/2024 10:34:52 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
A small band of Ukrainian soldiers was trapped. They were holding the line on the battlefield, but Russian forces had managed to creep in behind their trench and encircle them.
“Even if the position holds, supplies — ammunition, provisions — eventually run out,” Capt. Viacheslav, the 30-year-old commander of an elite drone unit, said last week as he monitored events from an outpost a few miles away in eastern Ukraine. “Any vehicle attempting to reach these positions will be ambushed.”
“We are always getting stuck in these kinds of tough situations,” he said.
As the war in Ukraine enters its fourth winter and the first snowfall blankets cratered fields strewed with bodies, the situations are only growing tougher for Ukrainian forces.
Gen. Oleksandr Syrsky, Ukraine’s top military commander, recently said his forces were fighting to hold back “one of the most powerful Russian offensives from launching a full-scale invasion.”
Ukraine got a boost on Sunday when the United States, after months of pressure from Kyiv, granted permission for Ukraine to use American-provided weapons to fire deeper into Russia.
But the election of Donald J. Trump to the American presidency this month injected an extra dose of uncertainty over the fate of the Ukrainian war effort.
While questions over whether the United States would continue to provide robust military support to Ukraine have resulted in a frenzy of diplomatic activity around the world, nowhere will those decisions be felt more acutely than on the front lines, where beleaguered Ukrainian troops are engaged in a fierce and bloody defense of their land.
Outnumbered by more than six to one along some stretches of the front, soldiers and commanders say they are hindered by a lack of combat infantry after years of heavy fighting and, just as important, by a...
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TOPICS: Humor
KEYWORDS: marcsantora; russia; ukraine; zeepershasthesads
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
No more time to waste between now and Jan 20th. This will go from a war of attrition to an outright slaughter here shortly. Good. Maybe then we’ll see an end to it.
2 posted on 11/20/2024 10:44:29 AM PST by dware (Americans prefer peaceful slavery over dangerous freedom)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
Did you know that Russian egg and butter prices are still rather high?
3 posted on 11/20/2024 10:48:19 AM PST by janetjanet998 (Legacy media including youtube are the enemy of the people and must die)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
If you use the words “Ukrainian” and “cauldron” in a sentence, any Ukrainians hearing the sentence will start to shudder uncontrollably.
4 posted on 11/20/2024 10:56:24 AM PST by BEJ
To: E. Pluribus Unum
“A small band of Ukrainian soldiers was trapped,” the story begins. Marc Santora knows, because he was there with them. Or maybe not.
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