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It's the last paragraph that is telling.. Crimea will come increasingly within range. The remaining recently arrived rats will soon start fleeing. Who in their right mind will hang around too long. Not that many routes out.

General Surovikin statement.

If the Russians have crossed the Dnipro river, what's the best way of attacking them now? Cut off their route back to Russia along the south and force them out through Crimea?

lol, are you suggesting the Russians are engaging in some kind of feint?

They can push two fronts one directly towards Kherson and a possibility they push south from karkhiv the Russians are going to struggle to hold them off once HiMars and M270s coming into the area

It's clearly swamp gas from a weather balloon that was trapped in a thermal pocket and reflected the light from Venus. Duh!

As soon as General Surovkin was put in charge one of the first comments he made publicly was about how difficult it would be to defend kherson with only 2 real points to supply it (Antonovsky bridge, Nova Kakhovka dam). You can only send ferries back and forth across the Dnieper for so long

Its a shame they decided to leave, as otherwise there was a chance Ukraine could fully blow the kakhovka dam and have russian force in Kherson totally cut off. With a retreat they may save many of their soldiers and weaponry

The Russians are definitely making a big deal about this withdrawal.

Maybe the Russians are attempting to entice UKR forces into formerly occupied area and to blow the dam? Suspect they won't be rushing in.

If that is the Russian tactic, it's pretty stupid and worthy of a child.

Hitler's Atlantic Wall was more hype than reality, and he had 3+ years to prepare it. Let's see how the Russians do.

Those defenses will be good for training novices in the use of long-range artillery from the west bank.

Posted on Twitter by historian James Holland: a casualty report from the Battle of Anzio. An interesting illustration of how bad casualties can get, and this was in a time without drones, when artillery was less accurate, and most rifles were bolt-action.

Note how the author comments that the casualties represent a complete tunrover of the rifle companies (i.e. over 100% casualties over the period). I'm assuming the comment "Officers and NCOs very short and everyone strange to each other" means that the high casualty/replacement rate means that command teams are less experienced and have had little chance to "gel" with each other, rather than meaning that everyone is cranky and avoiding each other (although both could be true). I imgaine a Russian officer reading this today would be nodding his head in full understanding.

("Offrs" = Officers, "O.R." = Other Ranks)

That just looks like someone's phone camera not being able to deal with exposing the sun and the dark foreground, and blowing out the highlights.

Likely scenario is that both sides will fortify their side of the river and fighting moves to other areas of the front.

A river assault would be hugely risky and costly over whoever tried to undertake it. I cannot see Ukraine risking their more precious resources on such an endeavour.