There is growing alarm about the pace and prospects of Ukraine’s counteroffensive, with few signs of progress in recent weeks and Russian lines holding strong. Those concerns picked up steam …
Why? It would be a nightmare. Bakhmut/Artemovsk was bad enough, and it was a small town. A proper megapolis like Kiev would be a massacre for either side
Bakhmut was heavily fortified from 2014 and it was the USA , frenchies who helped the strategic defenses of Bakhmut , now “If” Ukrainian military collapses within this year. Russians will go for Kiev to remove the government once in for all. US will always act as a bogeyman if Russians let them go off the hook. 2ndly Wagner did all the urban fighting for Bakhmut , it was a big deal for Yankees not for Russians
Why? It would be a nightmare. Bakhmut/Artemovsk was bad enough, and it was a small town. A proper megapolis like Kiev would be a massacre for either side
Bakhmut was heavily fortified from 2014 and it was the USA , frenchies who helped the strategic defenses of Bakhmut , now “If” Ukrainian military collapses within this year. Russians will go for Kiev to remove the government once in for all. US will always act as a bogeyman if Russians let them go off the hook. 2ndly Wagner did all the urban fighting for Bakhmut , it was a big deal for Yankees not for Russians
And Kiev was not fortified?
Was it? The war was in Donbass , they heavily fortified Donbass, Avdeevka, Kramatorsk and Bakhmut were very strategic regions for UAF.
You know what, I’ll have to check. I was sure there was trench digging and arming civvies, but not sure anymore. So I’ll go check