At the same time Russians are constantly pounding Ukrainian targets, dozens everyday, some days over 100. Everything from command and control, communications, supply convoys, military repair facilities, military industrial targets, bunkers and gathering centers for Ukrainian troops. I can't show this video here because of how gruesome it is some it shows a recent Ukrainian defensive position that was overrun by Russian troops. You can see dozens and piles of Ukrainians troops slaughtered as they were completely overwhelmed.
Just yesterday Russian troops liberated several villages and towns, advancing south, closer towards Krematorsk. Of course sometimes Russian troops will get ambushed. They really lack in the drone department and it would help them immensely if they would simply put their pride aside and begin using Iranian drones. Look how even the lowest grade Iranian drones have done wonders for the Houthis against a far superior foe in the Saudis. Recently Russia received some large shipments from Iran. Hopefully they are drones. A few hundreds Iranian drones would absolutely wreck Ukrainian positions and make their ambush tactics much more difficult. Of course the Americans would be enraged but f#ck them, at this point what can they do to Iran ? Nothing really. Perhaps this will make them regret not having signed the nuclear deal with Iran. In any case, we'll have to wait and see what that shipment was all about.
Honestly if the Ukranians are smart, they'll begin a tactical withdrawal from the Krematorsk area when it becomes obvious that the situation is hopeless. Otherwise 100,000 of Ukrainians best troops will be stuck in a pincer and that will be a decisive blow to Ukraine.
What's more important than Krematork is actually the strong defensive lines around Donetsk city which the DPR forces have not been able to breach since the start of the war. The Ukrainians are really fighting tooth and nail to prevent a breakout in that area, because if the Russians do breakout, it will leave the road to Dnipro wide open, as well as the highways that lead to the south of Kharkiv.
If the Russians are able to take Krematorsk, surround Dnipro, surround Kharkiv and if they and then simply repel any attempts by the Ukrainians to launch their attacks on their positions then the Ukrainians will be in a very precarious position indeed.
But aside from Dnipro and Kharkiv, if the Russians can just surround Odessa, and cut off Ukraine physically from the ocean and connect with Transnistria and then defend their positions, that will also be devastating for Ukraine.
Right now the Ukrainians are receiving a hodgepodge of weapons including Leopard 1s, T-72s and BMP-1s from the 1960-1970s, as well as MRAPS (Mastifs, Bushmasters) from the UK and Australia. Realistically, the Russians do not have full air supremacy and the skies over Ukraine are contested, but for the most part the Russians do control the skies with their missiles and over 1000 fighter jets in inventory.
Any attempt by the Ukrainians to launch a frontal attack on Russian positions will be suicide. Russian missiles, guided by satellites and laser guided artillery will absolutely eradicate the Ukrainian columns before they can even get close to the front line. I don't know wtf Zelensky is thinking but he's obviously a stooge of the American military industrial complex. He doesn't seem to give a damn about Ukraine or Ukranians. He's just an actor / comedian who's been hyped up into a messiah like figure by the MSM in the west.
Btw the Russians are now less than 60 km away from Krematorsk, about an 1 hr drive. It's dissapointing that the Russians can't seem to break the defensive lines from Donetsk but the Ukrainians must be sacrificing hundreds if not thousands of troops on a daily basis holding that position because if the Russians breakthrough there, Dnipro and Kharkiv will be surrounded and enveloped. In any case, the way I look at it, it's just a matter of time.
Again I can't show these pictures on this website, but look at the following link. Another Ukrainian position overrun. dozens of Ukrainian troops slaughtered on the battlefield. Dozens of ID cards, dozens of corpses, captured weapons, armored vehicles, dozens of dead Georgian troops. The Ukrainians are being absolutely devastated.
@sha ah
This is struggles Russia is facing, very similar to SAA from 2012-2016
