Ukraine Makes Big Military Gains

Oleksiy Gromov, a senior official in the Ukrainian armed forces announced on Thursday that the Ukrainian army had recaptured territory from Russian troops in the north-eastern region of Kharkiv, in the eastern Donbas region and in southern Ukraine. 

President [V]olodymyr [Z]elensky put the retaken territory at 1,000 sq km and on Saturday, this had expanded to 2,000 sq km. And in little over 48 hours later, Ukraine's military claimed their forces had reoccupied over 3,000 sq km. 

Yesterday, [Z]elensky said his forces seized 6,000sq km of territory from Russia. 

Meanwhile, General Valerii Zaluzhnyi, commander of Ukraine's military, said his forces have even advanced to within 50km of the Russian border. 

I guess this is the campaign that the Ukrainians had been talking about – read my post “One Million Ukrainian Fighters are Poised to Attack the Russkies” dated July 12, 2022 – in fact, BBC News highlighted that Ukrainian forces outnumbered Russians by eight to one in last week's counter-offensive. 

Today, Bloomberg even has this for a headline: "Ukrainian Successes Raise Russian Collapse to Realm of Possibility"!

I agree with Sergey Markov, former adviser to Russian President Vladimir Putin and director of the Institute of Political Studies, who says “…Russia should change strategy… Russia’s military activities were too polite, too modest”. 

Let’s see Russia strikes back!