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Russia-Ukraine War - News and Developments PART 2

Russian military collapse has started:-

Ukraine troops raise flag over railway hub as advance threatens to turn into rout

Reuters Published September 10, 2022 Updated about 8 hours ago




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<p>A tank of Ukrainian Army advances to the fronts in the northeastern areas of Kharkiv, Ukraine on September 08, 2022. — Andalou Agency</p>

A tank of Ukrainian Army advances to the fronts in the northeastern areas of Kharkiv, Ukraine on September 08, 2022. — Andalou Agency
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Ukrainian officials shared photos on Saturday showing troops raising the nation’s flag over the main railway city that has supplied Russian forces in northeastern Ukraine, as a collapse in Russia’s frontline threatened to turn into a rout.
A Reuters journalist inside a vast area recaptured in recent days by the advancing Ukrainian forces saw Ukrainian police patrolling towns and boxes of ammunition lying in heaps at positions abandoned by fleeing Russian soldiers.
With Ukrainians now having reached the city of Kupiansk, where rail lines linking Russia to eastern Ukraine converge, the advance had penetrated all the way to Moscow’s main logistics route, potentially trapping thousands of Russian troops.
Natalia Popova, adviser to the head of the Kharkiv regional council, shared photos on Facebook of troops holding up a Ukrainian flag in front of Kupiansk city hall. A Russian flag lay at their feet. “Kupiansk is Ukraine. Glory to the armed forces of Ukraine,” she wrote.
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In Hrakove, one of dozens of recaptured villages, Reuters journalists saw burnt out vehicles bearing the “Z” symbol of Russia’s invasion, and piles of rubbish and ammunition in positions the Russians had abandoned in evident haste.
“Hello everyone, we are from Russia,” was spray painted on a wall.
Three bodies lay in white body bags in a yard.
The regional chief of police, Volodymyr Tymoshenko, said Ukrainian police had moved in the previous day, and had checked the identities of local residents who had lived under Russian occupation since the invasion’s second day.
“The first function is to provide help that they need. The next job is to document the crimes committed by Russian invaders on the territories which they temporarily occupied.”
The capture of at least part of Kupiansk, if confirmed, potentially leaves thousands of Russian soldiers trapped at the frontline and cut off from supplies. Reuters could not independently verify the situation in the city.
Ukraine has seized a huge swathe of territory in the east in recent days in its fastest advance since it defeated the Russian assault on the capital Kyiv in March.
In an overnight video address, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said at least 30 settlements had been liberated in Kharkiv region.
 
Their invasion was doomed from the start,they bet on a quick collapse of Ukrainian armed forces and the Ukrainian population (at least Russian speakers) to rally for their cause.
not really, i remember very well how uaf could not oppose russian columns but chosen directions were idiotic because false assumptions.
In first month russians could easly go along dnepar river after kherson, uaf was not ready to oppose that both with man power and equipment.
 
Russia’s biggest gamble
Shutting down north stream 1.

 
Russian Ministry of Defense:

In order to achieve the goals of the special military operation and to increase the efforts in the Donetsk direction, it was decided to regroup the troops in the Balakliya and Izyum districts.

/facepalm/
They learned from their idols.


Translated:

Front straightening is both a military or military-historical term and an example of euphemism in the propaganda language of the Third Reich in World War II. In the literal sense, front straightening (or synonymously front shortening) means the elimination of bulges and zigzag courses of the war front between two states in the state of war.

Front straightening was carried out more often, especially in the First World War. This war was marked, especially on the Western Front, by position and trench fighting, solidified fronts over a long time and offensives stuck in the opposing defense system. A front straightening could be achieved both by a new offensive, which made the connection of the resting neighboring positions to the advanced front section, as well as through a tactical retreat. A front straightening shortened the length of the front and thus freed troops for other tasks, but also for the opponent. The most extensive front straightening of the First World War took place in 1917 on the direction of the German Supreme Army Command (OHL) on the Western Front. A few months after the Allied offensive on the Somme, which had left a zigzag-like and confusing frontline - without opposing pressure - withdrew to the so-called victory peace position in Alberich. This expanded front line was much shorter and could be better defended. This front straightening had not only tactical, but also strategic importance.

During World War II, "front straightening" took on a slightly different meaning. The term became - especially in the second half of the war - a euphemism for an opponent-forced withdrawal of German troops. On the part of the Wehrmacht leadership, Nazi propaganda, the Deutsche Wochenschau and the other media, the catastrophic situation of the German Wehrmacht and the associated withdrawal or Collapse on all fronts with terms such as "planned set-off movement", "front shortening" or even "front straightening" trivialized or obfuscated. Since the actual situation could not be concealed by the population with the increasing duration of the war, the term "front straightening" was usually used popularly in a mocking or ironic way and the official propaganda thus reversed in its intention.
 
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