The end of the Ukrainian state as we know it is approaching. After committing most of their remaining battle-ready reserves into the disastrous incursion in Kursk Oblast, the Ukrainian army is being rolled back. A Russian counteroffensive has begun, spearheaded by Marines and Paratroopers, which has already made significant gains in the region.
In less than a day of fighting, the Russian Army has already recaptured around 10% of the territory lost in Kursk and are putting the entire salient under heavy pressure. The 106th Red Banner Airborne Division has already liberated several settlements and is threatening to encircle Ukrainian army groups. It seems as if the Ukrainian Army has been caught by surprise, and they are abandoning positions and equipment as they retreat. The Russian spearhead in the village of Snagost defeated the Ukrainian garrison in a matter of hours and captured the city by midnight of September 10th.
Ukrainian soldiers are surrendering en masse, unable to mount any meaningful resistance against the Russian armored attacks due to a serious lack of heavy ordinance. As the game changing F-16s are used to defend cities like Kiev and Lvov from drones and precious artillery is used to shell Russian cities, the Ukrainian soldiers on the front lines suffer for lack of fire support. The light, mobile units of the Ukrainian army were built to bypass Russian forces, rather than fight. Without fire support, they are almost powerless to resist the Russian mechanized forces now mustered against them.
As the paratroopers advance, Russian aircraft and artillery are on the hunt, extracting a heavy toll on Ukrainian forces. Roads and fields are littered with the burning husks of NATO war machines, representing millions of our tax dollars and thousands of lives ended for a PR stunt so brazen that even Ukraine’s allies do not see any military purpose to it.
While the Ukrainians are rolled back in Kursk, the lines have been shattered in Donbass, where Russian forces take once-impregnable positions in record time. Already, dozens of pieces of NATO equipment have been destroyed, including some of the irreplaceable M270 rocket artillery systems. In the past month, a half dozen have been confirmed destroyed with video evidence, the majority of those in Sumy Oblast which borders Kursk
This was not difficult to see coming. Despite the Ukrainians and their masters in Washington trying to convince us that a Russian collapse was imminent, the Russian armed forces still have considerable reserves, while the best of the Ukrainian army died Banzai charging through a minefield this summer. With the geniuses of the NATO general staff behind them, it is a surprise that Ukraine has made it this far. An entire generation of industry capture means that the NATO general staff exists to sell weapons, not win wars.
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