https://asiatimes.com/2022/09/ukraine-the-situation-september-12-2022/part of the salient.
"Ukrainian forces have continued their advance south/southeast down the M03 roadway and have reached Izium. Some fighting continues while the majority of forces facing the Ukrainian advance were light-armored DPR units.
Russian counterattacks have been limited to air and artillery strikes. Some regular Russian reserves and reinforcements have reportedly been moved into Oskil (10 kilometers east of Izium) to assist in the retreat.
The loss of Izium is critical to Russian operations in the Donbas salient. With it, Russian operations between Izium and Sloviansk, and those around Sloviansk, Kramatorsk and Barvinkove now must end and those forces must fall back towards the eastern
...offensive directly involved US military personnel in critical line functions."
What the immediate Russian response to the military setback indicates is a different matter altogether. There was some reinforcement of the Donbas front.
But most significantly, there was a first-ever series of massed air and missile attacks on major cities in eastern Ukraine that have caused large-scale blackouts, water systems failures and other infrastructure failures.
Russia has concluded that it is now in a direct war with the US, that this is now an American war. The boundaries had been pushed all along. But the mass delivery of US heavy artillery has pushed the situation into the grey zone. But the Kharkiv
On Monday, September 12, 2022 at 11:46:09 PM UTC+8, ltlee1 wrote:part of the salient.
https://asiatimes.com/2022/09/ukraine-the-situation-september-12-2022/
"Ukrainian forces have continued their advance south/southeast down the M03 roadway and have reached Izium. Some fighting continues while the majority of forces facing the Ukrainian advance were light-armored DPR units.
Russian counterattacks have been limited to air and artillery strikes. Some regular Russian reserves and reinforcements have reportedly been moved into Oskil (10 kilometers east of Izium) to assist in the retreat.
The loss of Izium is critical to Russian operations in the Donbas salient. With it, Russian operations between Izium and Sloviansk, and those around Sloviansk, Kramatorsk and Barvinkove now must end and those forces must fall back towards the eastern
offensive directly involved US military personnel in critical line functions."...
What the immediate Russian response to the military setback indicates is a different matter altogether. There was some reinforcement of the Donbas front.
But most significantly, there was a first-ever series of massed air and missile attacks on major cities in eastern Ukraine that have caused large-scale blackouts, water systems failures and other infrastructure failures.
Russia has concluded that it is now in a direct war with the US, that this is now an American war. The boundaries had been pushed all along. But the mass delivery of US heavy artillery has pushed the situation into the grey zone. But the Kharkiv
It is an American war with, and not Ukraine war. US provided many especially HIMAR weapons to hit at the eastern occupied side of Ukraine. Russia will not sit back but will will take appropriate measures to retaliate back. This is even more casualtieswill arise from both sides.
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