Vlad's war .... warning graphic

[Botany]

Nina Kovalenko, 66, crying over the body of her son Mykhailo Kovalenko, 36, who was killed in a strike on Saturday in Kostyantynivka, in eastern Ukraine.

KYIV, Ukraine — Russian troops mounted a fierce assault on Ukrainian forces on Saturday in an effort to dislodge them from critical positions in eastern Ukraine, with Moscow seeking to protect vital supply routes and both armies jockeying for position in anticipation of new offensive campaigns.

Russia has been trying for months to break through well-fortified Ukrainian defensive positions across the Luhansk and Donetsk regions, throwing wave after wave of soldiers into the fight and suffering heavy casualties but making few territorial gains.

Those efforts have taken on greater urgency as Western and Ukrainian officials warn that Moscow plans to launch a large-scale assault aimed at regaining the upper hand, nearly a year after Russia invaded Ukraine. Military experts and Western officials say they also believe that Ukraine will try to mount an offensive of its own to drive Russia out of occupied areas in the east.

“It is no secret that they are preparing for a new wave by Feb. 24,” Oleksiy Danilov, the head of the Ukrainian National Security and Defense Council, told Radio Liberty on Friday, referring to Russian forces and what will be the first anniversary of their full-scale invasion. Moscow’s immediate goal, he said, is to capture the entire Donetsk and Luhansk regions and then “to completely go beyond the borders of the regions.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/28/world/europe/ukraine-russia-war-bakhmut.html

[PortTack]

1. They never do anything different...where is the equipment going to come from?

How will they feed and clothe more soldiers, they aren’t feeding and clothing their current force. Many are thin, covered in lice and sickly.

Just because they say so doesn’t make it so. I suppose they are going to lob more missiles at civilian infrastructure and call that a counter offensive

[Disaffected]

2. Mad Vlad

needs to go ASAP.

[Botany]

4. Yup!

click on the link for the NY Times story,

[Hermit-The-Prog]

3. Canadian medic...