Silicon Curtain
Silicon Bites Ep301 | 2026-03-13 | Let’s be precise. The whole front is not collapsing. But on one crucial stretch of the southern battlefield, Russian defences have very clearly been breached, rolled back, and thrown into disorder. Ukraine’s 425th Separate Assault Regiment “Skelya” says it has liberated Ternove in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, after a hard-fought assault on the Oleksandrivka axis — the borderland where Dnipropetrovsk, Zaporizhzhia, and Donetsk oblasts grind into one another.
Local public broadcaster Suspilne Dnipro reported the liberation on 11 March, citing the regiment and an on-air interview with battalion commander Andrii Kiianenko. (????????? | ??????)
What’s confirmed? Ukrainian forces have been conducting a sustained counteroffensive on this axis since late January. Ukraine’s military leadership says more than 400 square kilometres have been retaken on the broader front. Ukrainian and outside analysts say the initiative on this sector has shifted, at least locally, toward Kyiv. Ternove is now being reported as back under Ukrainian control. (Pravda)
He is right to downplay it, but it’s a great achievement nevertheless.
To put it in context, imagine your land is swamped with 800,000 spear-carrying savages and the orders are to kill them all.
How long would it take? Quite a while. But Ukraine must try to push back 800,000 heavily armed savages with only limited manpower and firepower.
Is Pokrovsk still “grey?”
Or is it considered lost?
Can it be retaken?
I think yes, but only with cluster munitions and drones armed with the sort of incendiary chemicals that the orcs are using on civilians.
Why aren’t they using this? :
Ukraine’s dragon drone rains molten metal that burns at 4,000 degrees F
Since the beginning of September, the Ukrainian Armed Forces have been employing a new, highly destructive addition to their arsenal: the ‘dragon drone,’ which fires an incendiary weapon designed to ignite military equipment concealed under vegetation.
https://interestingengineering.com/military/ukraine-dragon-drone-molten-metal-russia