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Russian Units Advancing From Crimea Have Reached the Dnieper River
60 kilometers in half a day
Anti-Empire 9 hours ago 3147 10
Passing through Crimea border control
Ukrainian military seems to be holding up somewhat in the east, but its southern front seems not to have put up much resistance.
The Russian military was able to break out from the Crimean isthmus and then march to the Dnieper river at Nova Kakhovka in only half a day.
That’s pretty disastrous for the Ukrainian side since the Crimean isthmus is a bottleneck. If they had a chance of holding up the Russians it would have been there.
The obvious move for the Russians now is to cross the Dnieper and carve out a valuable bridgehead. Maybe march on to Odessa when more forces catch up.
The other option is to pour from Crimea going east. Advance far enough and you’re starting to threaten the rear, and the escape routes, of the Ukrainian units that were positioned against Donbass.
In any case, this is probably the biggest Russian success of the day.
There are only two roads leading out of Crimea, the rest is swampy salty lagoons
60 kilometers in half a day
Anti-Empire 9 hours ago 3147 10
Passing through Crimea border control
Ukrainian military seems to be holding up somewhat in the east, but its southern front seems not to have put up much resistance.
The Russian military was able to break out from the Crimean isthmus and then march to the Dnieper river at Nova Kakhovka in only half a day.
That’s pretty disastrous for the Ukrainian side since the Crimean isthmus is a bottleneck. If they had a chance of holding up the Russians it would have been there.
The obvious move for the Russians now is to cross the Dnieper and carve out a valuable bridgehead. Maybe march on to Odessa when more forces catch up.
The other option is to pour from Crimea going east. Advance far enough and you’re starting to threaten the rear, and the escape routes, of the Ukrainian units that were positioned against Donbass.
In any case, this is probably the biggest Russian success of the day.
There are only two roads leading out of Crimea, the rest is swampy salty lagoons