Ukraine’s Victory Is Closer Than Ever

[Khandro]

Superb, upbeat article in today's Telegraph which closes;

Russia seems to be in the grip of a mass psychosis – a regression to a mythical past that increasingly collides with the reality of violent death on an industrial scale. Few return from the killing fields of Ukraine to tell the tale, but defeat on the battlefield is an incontrovertible argument.

If the Russians cannot hold the line in Zaporizhzhia, they could well suffer a rout – as happened last year near Kharkiv. This time, however, the Ukrainians are far better prepared to exploit a localised collapse to drive a wedge between Russian occupiers in Donetsk to the east and the Black Sea coast, including Crimea, to the south.

The war seems to be approaching the point that the First World War reached on August 8, 1918. This has gone down in history in General Ludendorff’s phrase as “the black day of the German Army” – the day the Allied tanks broke through at Amiens and began a 100-day campaign that ended the war.

Ukraine has the tanks, it has the men and it has Zelensky too. This battle-hardened but by no means war-weary people, its national identity forged in adversity, is fighting to liberate all of its land – Crimea included.

With or without Western support and sanctions, Ukraine will fight on until Putin’s evil empire is defeated.

[ichkeria]

Dzhankoi has been attacked several times .

See, I understood part of that …

[ichkeria]

Ukrainian advances continue to the Russian trenches west of Verbove on that Zaporizhzhya axis …

[ichkeria]

Ukrainian special forces are already in Crimea - not just the beach landing and flag raising last week. Probably thousands.
They’ve been there since day one and the Russians simply can’t find them ;-)

[porkchop]

Don't believe a word you hear or read from either side, all fake news from them all.

[tomus42]

Is Landf an AI bot pretending to be an idiot, or vice versa? We will never know.

He/she/it is funny though, so it's OK.