#85726 Re: Ukrajina
Posted: 12/05/2022 12:42
Tom Cooper je naravno bio u pravu kad je pisao prije par dana o tome sta ce Rusi uraditi kod Bilohorivke sa pontonima i mostobranima i cudi se da Ukrajinci nisu odreagovali odlucnije i agresivnije, s pretpostavkom da kao i on znaju da je to standardna taktika kod Rusa sa mostobranima cak i po cijenu velikih gubitaka...njegov osvrt na razvoj dogadjaja danas:
..some people are calling me 'hysteric' and diverse 'experts in geopolitics' are babbling all sorts of nonsense about me on the internet - so much so, I'm not sure if I'm a US novelist, a Czech or Andorran liar, or just arrived on this planet after crashing my flying saucer against Mount Everest... but, 'that itch in my small toe' is rarely wrong.
Turns out, all the Ukrainian success reports from the Bilohorivka area of the last few days were still overenthusiastic. And that because, and I cannot overemphasize this often enough: that about RUSSIANS AND BRIDGEHEADS.
As first, mind that there were reports about the Russians throwing a pontoon bridge over the Siversky Donets already on 7-8 May? Yes, this was knocked out on or around 9 May.
However, by then, the Russians already had a bridgehead....and nobody is constructing a bridge, and then more of them, without a bridgehead.
Then, on 10 May, the Russians constructed another bridge. Sure, this was destroyed either on the same day, or a day later.
....but, they constructed a third bridge, too. Perhaps this was knocked out yesterday (11 May), and the RFA lost about 20 BMP-2s, and a dozen of MT-LBs, and at least half a dozen of MBTs to the Ukrainian artillery and air strikes.... i.e. a better part of not 1, but 2 BTGs.
BUT: now there are reports that the Russians broke through and are advancing on Novoselivka.
....and that, ladies and gentlemen, is a village 5km south-west of Bilohorivka, and only 2-3km east of Siversk, and on the sole road connecting Siversk with Lysychansk...
Because, you know: when one is concentrating all of his firepower on the bridgehead, one can't simultaneously target the enemy artillery, too.
....of course, the (official) Ukrainians are (still) 'counterattacking on Bilohorivka'...![]()
Memo for the records: 'Tou shall not mistrust Tom's gut-feeling'...
