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Next to emerge was a video of a MiG-29* struck at an airfield near Dnipropetrovsk, just as it was being armed and the pilot had climbed in for preflight.
Once again the Russians coldly waited to cause maximum casualties among key AFU personnel.
* initially reported as an Su-24 pic.twitter.com/su10YVprYW
— Armchair Warlord (@ArmchairW) August 16, 2024
Not one but two Patriot batteries were struck in the vicinity of Dnipropetrovsk, substantially reducing threats to Russian aviation, drones and missiles in the Dniper Bend area.
These systems will not be replaced easily, and Ukraine does not have many to begin with. pic.twitter.com/GExfwFsWm4
— Armchair Warlord (@ArmchairW) August 16, 2024
The Ukrainians counterpunched by finishing off a damaged bridge in the Glushkovo area (immediately west of their current salient) with a glide bomb or ATACMS strike.
The Russians had a pontoon up to replace it within hours. pic.twitter.com/Q9VadEaFKe
— Armchair Warlord (@ArmchairW) August 16, 2024
Russian forces are continuing to advance west of Donetsk City, with a spearhead reaching for the key logistical hub of Pokrovsk, a general advance east of Ugledar that threatens to eventually swamp the longtime AFU stronghold, and additional progress towards Toretsk. pic.twitter.com/LSacoQBx7z
— Armchair Warlord (@ArmchairW) August 16, 2024
With their forces stretched to the breaking point, the Ukrainian leadership has made a series of desperate moves hoping to shake the foundations of the war and gain some kind of advantage. Thus far they are not paying out.
Thus far.
We shall have to await further developments.
— Armchair Warlord (@ArmchairW) August 16, 2024
The Art of War angle on these terroristic Ukraine operations against civilians in Kursk is that they plan to get a better negotiating position.
That isn’t really the Art of War though, because the fact that they are desperate for peace talks, desperate to just try to get a better deal, means that they have a very serious problem.
Ukraine’s lightning offensive into several Russian border regions is designed to persuade Moscow to engage in “fair” talks about its war in Ukraine, an aide to Volodymyr Zelenskiy has said, as Russian forces close in on the strategic city of Pokrovsk in Donetsk region.
“We need to inflict significant tactical defeats on Russia,” the Ukrainian presidential adviser Mykhailo Podolyak wrote on the Telegram messaging app. “In the Kursk region, we clearly see how the military tool is objectively used to convince the Russian Federation to enter into a fair negotiation process.
“We have proven, effective means of coercion. In addition to economic and diplomatic ones … we need to inflict significant tactical defeats on Russia.”
Podolyak made his comments as it appeared that Ukraine had largely cut off a significant area of Glushovsky district of Kursk and Russian troops there after blowing up two important bridges on the Seim river.
Footage of the Ukrainian Air Force dropping the Russian-held bridge over the Seym River at Glushkovo, Kursk Oblast.
At least one fighter-launched glide bomb hit the span, destroying it. pic.twitter.com/AwDGewyJ2R
— OSINTtechnical (@Osinttechnical) August 16, 2024
As Ukraine appeared to be consolidating its gains in Russia’s Kursk region, Moscow’s forces were advancing rapidly towards Pokrovsk, which for months has been one of their key targets.
Yeah, Russia appears to like the fact that the Hohols are putting such a crazy amount of manpower into invading territory they cannot possibly hold, allowing Russia a clean shot at the next spot on the map.
Ukrainian military authorities urged civilians living in the city to speed up their evacuation on Friday. Pokrovsk officials said in a Telegram post that Russian troops were “advancing at a fast pace. With every passing day there is less and less time to collect personal belongings and leave for safer regions”.
Pokrovsk is one of Ukraine’s main defensive strongholds and a key logistics hub in the eastern Donetsk region. Its capture would compromise Ukraine’s defensive abilities and supply routes and bring Russia closer than ever to its stated aim of capturing the whole region.
In an update on Thursday, the Institute for the Study of War thinktank wrote: “Russian forces are maintaining their relatively high offensive tempo in Donetsk oblast, demonstrating that the Russian military command continues to prioritise advances in eastern Ukraine even as Ukraine is pressuring Russian forces within Kursk oblast.”
The Ukrainians are really not doing well in Kursk.
The massacre of a column of Ukrainian armored vehicles in Kursk Oblast
– so much for CNN propaganda https://t.co/OW4oAFjMB8 pic.twitter.com/Gta2G09onM
— Russian Market (@runews) August 16, 2024
They are sending huge numbers of men and equipment, and just getting slaughtered, while they’ve also abandoned the front lines in the Donbass… does not look great.
