In The Guardian story I published there were some interesting comments. Even though Stav believes the Guardian BS they dish up as news.
Gotta love it. Mike posts a story from the guardian and its legit, any other story from the Guardian is BS!
Stav claimed the Ukraine army in 3 weeks occupied nearly as much as territory as the Russian did in six months.
Yes that was an assessment from the ISW.
That was commence on a claim I made that the Ukraine army was on retreat after the Bakmut battle.
No one disputes Russia captured Bakhmut and the Ukrainian's where pushed back in that area. Ukraine is now pushing back to the south of Bakhmut and appear to be attempting to encircle it.
He went on - supported by Mozart - indicating a purple area rgained by Ukraine during the Counter-offensive.
Purple? The area was marked in blue. How can you get simply things so wrong.
In the article it was claimed that Ukraine dedicated a total of 9 brigades to the counter-offensive. So how many soldiers make up a brigade. In Google it stated a brigade consists of at least 2000 soldiers - but there are also supporting staff like medical and nursing staff who are not fighting soldiers involved, So lets put the brigade strength at 3 to 4 thousand soldiers. The article claimed and it as confirmed by other sources That the Ukraine sued only 3 brigades thus far in the counter-offensive (ie about 10 thousand men).
The sources I've seen have Ukraine with 12 spearhead brigades assigned to break the Russian lines with at least 10 more brigades possibly up to 23 earmarked to exploit any breakthrough.
However, I think there are problems faced by the Ukraine army. Wikipedia claimed there are 12 brigades to be used in the counter-offensive - Col McGregor spoke of 10 brigades and the Guardian of 9 brigades, so lets look at the numbers:-
* Wikipedia - 40 000 men
* Col Mc Gregor - 35 000 men
* The Guardian - 30 000 men
Even if those numbers are roughly correct, they are only the numbers for the counter offensive. Ukrainian's has hundreds of thousands of troops across the frontline and rear area's.
Zelenskyy fired the commanding general of the fighting forces in Eastern Ukraine. he did not give any reasons for the firing - but there were two obvious reasons, namely
* criticism by 3 Ukraine generals that only 30% of the equipment provided by the USA reached the fighting forces and the scoundrel was the Minister of Defense, but Zelenskyy refused to fire him;
No Ukrainian generals made such a statement. Your simply lying as always.
* The fired commanding general realized that useless attacks concocted by the suppliers of armaments to Ukraine and the Ukraine government caused massive losses for the Ukraine Army.
And more made up shit.
Forcast - if the Zelenskyy Government carry on with suicidal attacks the Ukraine army would take over the Government and start negotiations with the Russians as to a ceasefire.
Forecast, you will continue to make more idiotic commentary about the Ukraine war.