![]() ![]() Regardless, Ukraine’s losses were significant. Casualty figures are a closely guarded secret here. ![]() Highlighting the chaotic violence, one video showed Ukrainian vehicles driving in disoriented circles, before being picked off. Russian Ka-52 “Alligator” helicopters roamed the skies, seemingly unchallenged by Kyiv’s air-defense systems, which are running on fumes. Krasnopilske cemetery in the city of Dnipro, graves for the war dead swelled over the past winter, as fighting in Bakhmut intensified.įootage from multiple drones broadcast on Russian Telegram channels showed dozens of damaged and destroyed tanks and US-supplied MaxxPro “mine resistant” vehicles, plumes of smoke rising.Īdvancing in armoured columns, the Ukrainians became caught in minefields and were pummeled by artillery and kamikaze drones. Multiple battalions from two mechanized brigades rolled onto the grasslands along the line of contact, a three-pronged push aiming to identify seamlines and weak spots in the hamlets and villages of a 17-kilometer-long screening zone before Russia’s main, or first, defensive position. On June 4, Ukraine launched an initial push around Velyka Novosilka, targeting the least fortified area of a formidable southern frontline that stretches the length of Zaporizhzhia Oblast. It was not the start that Ukraine, its backers in the West, or NAFO trolls were hoping for. Within days, German tanks and significant numbers of US-supplied armoured fighting vehicles were burning on the prairielands of east Ukraine. And it was more or less exactly where everyone expected it: on the Zaporizhzhia front. “There will be no announcement of the start.” “Plans love silence,” the text at the end of the 34-second video read. ZAPORIZHZHIA, Ukraine – At the start of June, Ukraine’s defense ministry released a PR video of soldiers holding single fingers to their lips and vowing silence – “Shhh” – around their up-coming offensive operations. Glen Johnson: The Ukraine Counter-offensive as seen from and in Ukraine Friday, 14 July 2023, 1:16 pmĪt Krasnopilske cemetery in the city of Dnipro, graves for the war deadswelled over the past winter, as fighting in Bakhmut intensified. ![]()
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