Jun 13, 2023
VIA MILITARYLAND.NET
One of the Ukrainian air-assault forces’ oldest brigades unexpectedly appeared in the town of Neskuchne on Tuesday, joining a growing Ukrainian corps thundering south from Velyka Novosilka.
A photo that Reuters journalist Oleksandr Ratushniak snapped on Tuesday depicts paratroopers from the 25th Air Assault Brigade riding through Neskuchne on a rare 2S17 armored mortar.
The 25th Air Assault Brigade, which formed in 1993, last was spotted fighting in the forests around Kremmina in eastern Ukraine. That the brigade has shifted south and joined the Ukrainian assault along the Mokri Yaly River could indicate that Kyiv is beginning to commit more forces to its southern counteroffensive.
Ukrainian forces since early last week have been attacking along three or four axes in southern Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia and Donetsk Oblasts. Not all of the attacks have been successful. An attempt by the Ukrainian army’s 33rd Mechanized and 47th Assault Brigades to cross a Russian minefield just south of Mala Tokmachka, 40 miles west of Neskuchne, ended in disaster on Thursday.
Ukrainian forces don’t need every attack to succeed, however. Kyiv’s goal is to open a gap—any gap—somewhere along the Russian front line stretching across Zaporizhzhia and Donetsk Oblasts so that reinforcements can exploit that gap and race toward the Sea of Azov, aiming to liberate occupied cities and cut in half the Russian force in Ukraine.
The axis running along the Mokri Yaly River might be the most fruitful for the Ukrainians. In a heady few days, a multi-brigade force led by the navy’s 35th Marine Brigade has liberated a chain of villages as far south from Velyka Novosilka as Makarivka, 10 miles away.
The first unit to take a selfie in Neskuchne, on Sunday, was the reserve 129th Territorial Defense Brigade. It’s not clear whether the 25th Air Assault Brigade was there when the Ukrainians liberated Neskuchne, or arrived later.
In any event, the paratroopers now are part of a corps that includes at least four brigades in addition to their own: the 35th Marine Brigade, the 68th Jaeger Brigade and the 128th and 129th Territorial Defense Brigades.
It’s a powerful force, but a light one—lots of armored trucks, infantry fighting vehicles and mobile mortars, but just a few tanks. The marine-led corps is trying to move fast along the Mokri Yaly River, taking advantage of the apparent disorganization of the local Russian garrison, which includes elements of the 60th Motor Rifle Brigade, 37th Guards Motor Rifle Brigade, 394th Motor Rifle Regiment and 336th Guards Naval Infantry Brigade.
The swift Ukrainian brigades might be just the thing to outmaneuver and shock local Russian forces and pry open this sector of the front. A deeper exploitation of the Mokri Yaly axis—one with the potential to reach occupied Mariupol on the Sea of Azov, 50 miles to the south—might require heavier brigades, however.
As it happens, the Ukrainian army’s 3rd Tank Brigade with its 100 T-84 and T-72 tanks reportedly lurks inside Ukrainian lines just a few miles north of Velyka Novosilka.
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“The 25th Air Assault Brigade, which formed in 1993, last was spotted fighting in the forests around Kremmina in eastern Ukraine. That the brigade has shifted south and joined the Ukrainian assault along the Mokri Yaly River could indicate that Kyiv is beginning to commit more forces to its southern counteroffensive.”
I hope it’s not too early to say this, but it looks like the Ukrainians have found the hole they were looking for in the mafia defenses and are exploiting it. On to Mariupol? Maybe Berdyansk? Send in the heavies! Have the HIMARS and Storm Shadows ready!
Either one will do, then blow up the Kerch bridge. Any orcs trapped between the Ukrainians and Crimea, will soon run out of weapons.
Yeah it looks as we predicted here. The first move was the other day when we sent 4 Stormshadows at the HQ. UA is sending a big spear right down the middle and reinforcing it all the while cutting off the main supply lines and getting closer to the bridge. Thereby pinching everything off on the western side of poopin’s genocide forces and trapping everything in Crimea.
This is why I worry that biden’s not taking the Ukrainian war seriously. He abandoned Afghanistan, I think he may do the same to Ukraine if he feels that would improve his popularity with American voters. This article is also a “Members Only” article with Daily Wire, so it would need a paid subscription to read.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/why-the-war-in-ukraine-reminds-me-of-afghanistan
I’ll ban every ice cream truck from ever passing the Yellow House again, if he pulls an Afghanistan number on Ukraine.
Seriously, I hope that even the fossil has learned at least a little from his mistake, sir Mac. This is quite another situation, after all. And, as far as I know, most Americans still support helping Ukraine, so I don’t know how abandoning the country could possibly help him. His closest rival is currently facing serious criminal charges. Maybe Biden can use this to his advantage instead.
The charges against Trump are bogus. The grand jury was not conducted properly and there are many things in the charging documents that are the basis for moving for dismissal with prejudice.
I take it then that you haven’t actually read them. Here’s an unlocked link to the indictment: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/06/09/us/trump-indictment-document-annotated.html?unlocked_article_code=cbI2qSpr-sGtkptEyhuGD8Rj7givqRlTtvmV7MWlZMBtkp-dnC_8O2k03XFrSpbZAeOgNS9vrCNhwA1r7MmdIiH7PLUbLtk-sqswBBTi4RpMG03xkxb7GoHst9IQL6uPa6Ii1wRnroUYvaNbfTVVrgDc7o4l7QKIFuIoxXeI1BczpX5Eft9HZ0oJyhyXrK3nYQRF5Lf9B13BigFhSuCMu69gUwBBNV1BUC01Ad4x88l0ic_Qxa4cOW4t8LUv-5OHltZnhl8XZCVAyR55cHBPlUe3MujwSHCD8re9GkIlB7TV0Yt_CQp2ptozNnx-L7t3ROGMjxYUjaXhGXEnujaKTh-1WbK9SDDIVEXKgQoK
Just remember as you read the indictment, there’s not a single witness involved that’s a Democrat. They’re all Trump’s handpicked people. His lawyers. His employees. Their communications. Photos. Everything. It’s not a witch hunt.
Even Trump’s former attorney general, Bill Barr, said: “I think the counts under the Espionage Act, that he willfully retained those documents, are solid counts… I do think we have to wait and see what the defense says, and what proves to be true, but I do think that…if even half of it is true, then he’s toast. I mean, it’s a very detailed indictment, and it’s very, very damning.”
?? None address the Presidential Records Act. It was kept from the Grand Jury, intentionally.
The Presidential Records Act is irrelevant. There is absolutely no way that the stolen nuclear secrets could be considered “personal records”.
The Presidential Records Act of 1978 is what gives all Presidents their authority to remove documents.AND take up to 5 years to decide what they’re keeping and what they not.
Documents are documents, there is not classification stopping the Commander and Chief. The 2012 Socks Case is the proof.
You may need to read it
https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?path=%2Fprelim%40title44%2Fchapter22&edition=prelim
The prosecutors are perfectly capable of ascertaining the legality of Trump keeping classified documents. If he had not broken any rules or laws, he would be indicted for such.
Indictments are one sided. Only what is provided by one side is presented. IF the Prosecutor fails disclose statutes etc, the jury can only make a decision, based on one side.
That’s why the trial, or motion to dismiss is next
If the prosecutors have enough evidence, there is no chance that a dismissal will happen.
No, you’re totally wrong here. The “socks case” was about President Clinton’s personal recordings that he kept in his sock drawer. Judicial Watch sued, asking for the court to determine that the tapes were presidential records. They lost.
That’s not at all analogous to the secrets that Trump took, which nobody could argue were personal records. (Personal records are those “of a purely private or nonpublic character which do not relate to or have an effect upon” the execution of the president’s duties.)
The key sentence from the Presidential Records Act is unequivocal: “Upon the conclusion of a President’s term of office, or if a President serves consecutive terms upon the conclusion of the last term, the Archivist of the United States shall assume responsibility for the custody, control, and preservation of, and access to, the Presidential records of that President.”
Presidential records, yes, private records, no.
You didn’t read the Act/Statute, did you.
It’s called the Presidential Records Act for a reason
“didn’t read”
I’ve even been quoting it to you:
Personal records are those “of a purely private or nonpublic character which do not relate to or have an effect upon” the execution of the president’s duties.
There is no way that anyone with any intelligence could claim that the U.S. nuclear secrets could be considered “personal records”. There is no way that anyone should take seriously a claim that top secret documents that are supposed to only be seen in a SCIF (Sensitive Compartmented Information
Facility) could be considered “personal records”.
Your claims suggest that either you didn’t read the indictment and are ignorant of the documents that Trump illegally took and refused to return, or you’re deeply delusional.
The Presidential Records Act says that, the moment a president leaves office, NARA gets custody and control of all presidential records from his administration. Nothing in the law says there should be a negotiation between a former president and NARA over a former president’s return of presidential documents – much less that there should have been a months long battle after NARA first contacted Trump’s team in 2021 to try to get some of the records that had not been handed over at the end of his presidency.
Right you are Sir Oh. But Democrats don’t have to follow the law in the US, just Republicans do.
That’s nonsense. There’s no way you can compare what Trump did (as documented in the indictment) with what any Democrat did.
“just Republicans” – Republican Mike Pence wasn’t charged with anything, because he didn’t intentionally steal any documents, he didn’t knowingly retain the documents, and he cooperated on the return of the documents right away.
Again, here’s an unlocked link to the indictment: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/06/09/us/trump-indictment-document-annotated.html?unlocked_article_code=cbI2qSpr-sGtkptEyhuGD8Rj7givqRlTtvmV7MWlZMBtkp-dnC_8O2k03XFrSpbZAeOgNS9vrCNhwA1r7MmdIiH7PLUbLtk-sqswBBTi4RpMG03xkxb7GoHst9IQL6uPa6Ii1wRnroUYvaNbfTVVrgDc7o4l7QKIFuIoxXeI1BczpX5Eft9HZ0oJyhyXrK3nYQRF5Lf9B13BigFhSuCMu69gUwBBNV1BUC01Ad4x88l0ic_Qxa4cOW4t8LUv-5OHltZnhl8XZCVAyR55cHBPlUe3MujwSHCD8re9GkIlB7TV0Yt_CQp2ptozNnx-L7t3ROGMjxYUjaXhGXEnujaKTh-1WbK9SDDIVEXKgQoK
You’re right, what Hillary and China Joe have done is much worse.
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Trump stole documents on confidential informants in January 2021, and 9 months later, CIA Counterintelligence sent a top secret cable warning that an unusually high number of confidential informants had been killed, captured, or compromised.
The President cannot steal documents.
A Senator and a State Department person can, as they have no legal authority to remove documents, as does the Commander and Chief.
If the president takes documents and keeps them, which are not supposed to be kept, it’s theft.
With Afghanistan, Biden inherited Trump’s surrender agreement, negotiated by Trump’s Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo. Biden could either go along with it, or tear it up – in which case he would “own” the war in Afghanistan.
Ukraine is a very different situation, and I feel confident that President Biden will continue to support Ukraine for as long as it takes.
I agree that Ukraine is currently in a different situation than Afghanistan. They weren’t being invaded, and besides, biden’s retreat backfired on him miserably. For the record, I fully support the American government’s military aid to Ukraine, and have even considered the possibility of joining foreign fighters on Ukraine’s side. Most Americans hate the russian government, though I believe the reasons for what and how that hatred of moscow is expressed, is defined by political nuances. The Republicans have their reasons, and the Democrats their different ones too. But I also think the older generations of American Democrats differ from those of the newer generations. There’s also a shift along age of American Republicans.
I hope Ukraine’s various political parties aren’t divided by politics on the war, so far what I’ve seen, a large majority of the people are adamantly united against russia.
“biden’s retreat”
Again, that was Trump’s surrender agreement, negotiated by Trump’s Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, that President Biden inherited. Biden was stuck with either going along with it, or ripping it up and starting from scratch (while more US soldiers were being killed).
The withdrawal operation, was all Biden. The dates were decided upon by Trump, the execution was all Biden
Biden wasn’t stuck with anything at all, Larry. When the Taliban broke certain parts of the agreement, Biden had legal grounds to drop the entire thing and do what was right. Instead, he stuck to it, despite the signs of disaster.
Yes, he could have dropped it. But as I wrote, then it would have become his war because he cancelled the withdrawal agreement. And any US soldiers dying in Afghanistan would have been on his conscience. So, I don’t think he had any good choices. (And, he didn’t know how quickly the Afghan government would fold. It’s unfortunate that people died in the withdrawal, but at least we’re not still in there in an ongoing basis. Hindsight is 20-20…)
Those 13 dead soldiers are still on his conscience. Biden could have conceived a different plan instead of sticking to the original one, which was obviously flawed. He has the people to help him with such a situation and he has the power.
This is promising news.
Good news though after the Terrorist act by the Orcs on the dam, AFU Vampire Strikes Drones delivering food/aid etc to Ukrainians in occupied area.
https://t.me/UkraineNow/34727