(#5324) Ukraine is on the move

      I have been watching the daily progress updates coming out of Ukraine and they mostly all look really positive. The Ukrainian military has breached the Russian defensive lines in the Zaporizhzhia oblast and are in the process of a parallel clearing out of the Russian trench lines. This is the best result for a ground operation to clear out trench lines from a parallel position. Instead of coming at the trench lines from a frontal position the Ukrainians are attacking from the sides where the trenches are now a liability to Russians within them. As well the Russians are scrambling to move troops into the Zaporizhzhia region to help fortify what positions they can there.
     What that does though is leave other areas at the front line vulnerable and Ukraine is well aware of that fact. Russia has lost over 262,000 troops already in this invasion of Ukraine and have precious little reserves to move around the occupied Ukrainian territories. Concurrently the supply chain that Russia uses to equip their troops has been interrupted so much that equipment that is needed at the front for Russian soldiers is practically non existent. So Ukraine will have a much easier time moving through the next line of Russian fortifications because there are far fewer landmines spread around.
     It seems to me that with the pressure Ukraine is applying on the heads of the Russian military that this invasion of Russian, which actually began in 2014, may well be about to be reversed. Many analysts predicted that this invasion would still be warring along well into 2024 but if Ukraine keeps moving through the current Russian defenses, like a hot knife through butter, this war may not last to the end of this year. Which is what we who are patriots to democracy would all root for. If in the next few weeks we see the Ukrainians raising Ukrainian flags on coastal cities that border the Sea of Azov then know that putin and his cronies in the kremlin will not be long for this world.