24 Jul 2025 10:19 pm
Cannonpointer » 24 Jul 2025, 5:29 pm » wrote: ↑ The Russians are continuing to advance, but the rate at which they are advancing is increasing, and the rate of the increase is getting faster.
I would not be at all surprised if tommorow the Coupkrainian military - such as it is, undersupplied and with no complete units and with half the troops being foreign mercs and the other half kidnap victims who were bullied to the front - simply folded up and quit. I will absolutely be surprised if the Coupkrainian military is east of the Dnieper by Christmas, and in supply. Morale is in the terlet.
The reason the press isn't yakking anymore is that the news is very, very different than what the west wants it to be. There is no good news at all, in any area. Nothing to hype. It's so bad that it can no longer be massaged. The Russians have encircled and are taking Pokrovsk. All of the significant prizes to date which the Coupkrainians have sacrificed massive numbers to defend-to-the-end were important stepping stones on the way to Pokrovsk.
Pokrovsk is the key to everything east of the Dnieper. Without Pokrovsk, the theater is split for Coupkraine, with the northern forces isolated from the southern and with neither able to reinforce the other. And for both, supply is critically - one could even say fatally - affected. I look for mass retreats in the next two weeks, with the Coupkrainians attempting to regroup in supply and in a defensible position.
The west bank of the Dnieper leaps to mind... and nothing else does...
Mind you, my military experience happened in the woods behind my house before I had hair down there - back when I DIDN'T identify with the nazis. But I have better sources than the fruitcakes on this board...
That's why I asked the question. Press backed off because no good news to inflate. So we end up with people here not posting much about it. Shows where they get their news I guess.
Morale can't be good in an attacked country even if they seem to be gaining ground. Bad morale turns into worse morale when they start losing ground. Tough to tell the difference.