Ukraine launches surprise counterattacks against Russian troops while they're distracted

[Uncle Joe]

in the south

Ukraine appears to have surprised Russia this week with a series of counterattacks in the northeast of the country with military strategists saying Kyiv is likely to have taken advantage of a recent redeployment of Russian troops to defend against a counteroffensive in the south.

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Analysts at the Institute for the Study of War believe that Ukrainian forces in the Kharkiv region are likely exploiting the reallocation of Russian forces to the southern front “to conduct an opportunistic yet highly effective counteroffensive northwest of Izyum.”

The ISW believed that Ukraine’s “tactical surprise” had enabled its forces to advance at least 12 miles into Russian-held territory in the eastern part of the Kharkiv region on Wednesday, recapturing approximately 400 square kilometers of ground.

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“Multiple concurrent threats spread across 500km will test Russia’s ability to coordinate operational design and reallocate resources across multiple groupings of forces. Earlier in the war, Russia’s failure to do this was one of the underlying reasons for the military’s poor performance,” it said.

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https://www.cnbc.com/2022/09/08/ukraine-launches-counterattack-in-kharkiv-after-russians-redeployed-south.html?recirc=taboolainternal

[Lovie777]

1. K & R . . .

[Lovie777]

2. K & R . . .

[Igel]

3. It me likes.

But I regress.

"Multiple concurrent threats spread across 500km will test Russia’s ability to coordinate operational design and reallocate resources across multiple groupings of forces."

Let's not fear a two-front war. Let's fear a 400-mile-long one-front war.

And just how long was *any* front in WWII?

Russia can't fight a war on one front. It's only fall-back is nuclear annihilation.

(As far as I can see, that's Kim's and the Ayatollahs' fall-back position, too. Birds of a father ... uh ... feather. But Mendel.)