New thread time.
Kyiv held last night. Tonight may be different.
Kharkiv and its flanks are still holding.
Sumy and its flanks are still holding.
Mariupol is still holding.
Kherson and the lower Dnieper bridges are still holding.
Russian forces north of Kyiv are still building up for another attempt on the city tonight.
Russians still trying to interdict supply convoys from Poland into Ukraine and failing.
In several places the Russian logistics system has collapsed completely. Notably along the western part of the Belarus border, where they are running out of fuel in mid-drive.
The first two Russian echelon attacks have to have decimated Russia's elite units. But that remains to be seen. there are still at least three more echelons to go.
Artillery fire on and around Kyiv is increasing.
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My guess is that China and India gave Putin 24 to 48hrs to take Kyiv and Ukraine.
That didn't happen. So China and India are flipping back to being against this.
Artillery fire increasing around Kharkiv.
The Russians really want to get 1st GTA moving again.
*deep sigh*
This isn't exactly true. But outside of CoSo let it be thought so.
The US/NATO is providing ISR and intel support to Ukraine like a fire hose.
(ISR = Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance)
Chechen armored battalion wiped out northwest of Kyiv.
Northeast of Kyiv the Russian units following up behind Spetsnaz/ABN are from the Russian Eastern District. Those are not as well equipped, trained, or motivated as the elite units. And many of them are manned by conscripts far from home who were told this was just going to be an exercise.
The southern front loss of Melitopol has become a problem. Russian tanks have now penetrated as far north on the E105 highway as Tokmak and are moving fast behind the main Ukrainian defensive lines.
Ukr is going to have to find some sort of reserves to hold or counter attack before the Russians get to the Zaporizhzhia area. Or hold at the Zaporizhzhia/Dnipro bridges over the Dnieper as best as they can.
Large gas pipeline NW of Kyiv blown up.
Questions as to who did it, but the area of the explosion is Russian held.
Oil infrastructure near Vasilkov south of Kyiv is burning.
This is the same area as the failed airborne operation of last night.
