Russia Advances in Vuhledar, Donetsk, Repels Ukraine in Donbass; No Negotiations, War to Continue in Winter

Escape from lurking Fear and stifled Doubt. I wonder if there exist Ukrainian people who, in the future, will arise to hold frank discussion and lead the remnants of a land-locked Ukraine out of its mess. I suspect that amongst those Ukrainians who wish to flee from a place without fuel in the form of electricity, there will be those who wish to escape from an atmosphere of fear and stifled doubt. Those whom would like to check the veracity of conflicting stories, and feel perhaps kindly toward the Russian speaking Ukrainians they have met and wed and such forth. They… Read more »

Strategy in War covers (Almost) all Avenues: Chocolate addicts in Kiev will probably flee westward to EU,  where there is a lot of chocolate in the supermarkets, even before the heating goes down. That is, If lack of electricity compromises economic activity, which might well include the el-cheapo giant box sets ‘belgian’ chocolate factory of Poroshenko. But perhaps USA aide to Ukraine includes Hershey Bars? A difficult decision to take perhaps, but if I were the Russian command, I would target those chocolate factories with missiles. It’s a benign way to speed up war weariness amongst certain types, perhaps those people… Read more »

Could you please explain the Russian priority that would have subordinated Herson City to Batmut when Russia has to supply Crimea to protect its access to the Black Sea. Now, I read that Russia will have to route its truck convoys around the Sea of Azov to protect them from Ukrainian artillery positioned west of the Dnieper River. Holding Herson would have avoided this circumvention, from what I read.

Yes! The USA and its flunkies cannot treat Ukraine as the USA treated Afghanistan – by abandoning it. My fellow Americans of the middle and working classes are suffering the inflation that is, by most analysts, just beginning. My government is led by traitors to the American people, such as Nancy Pelosi. If fact, the entire political leadership of the USA, in all three branches of our governments, going back to Harry S. Truman, have been disserved, to put it mildly. The rest of the world has been much victimized by my country’s leaders.