Aug 30, 2022 The Western media claims the long-awaited “Kherson Offensive” has “begun.”
Regardless of its outcome, the fact that Ukraine is attempting to launch a counter-offensive in Kherson rather than the main front line in Donbass reveals deep, irreversible weaknesses that are and will continue to cost Ukraine the conflict.
“Kherson Offensive” Announced by Western Media via The New Atlas
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There has been much talk in ‘western’ media about a Ukrainian offensive in the southern Kherson region. However most of the claims made about it seem to be divorced from the observable realities on the ground. The detailed look below provides that there is no such offensive and that there is little chance that there will ever be one.
Ukraine’s Mystic Kherson Offensive Did Not, And Will Not Happen
BY M. K. BHADRAKUMAR | INDIAN PUNCHLINE | JULY 30, 2022
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Donbass and Kherson Developments
Drawing on Dima’s reports to the Military Summary Channel, it appears to Mercouris (Mercouris July 29 2022) that the Russian renewed offensive is now in full force, more intensely overwhelming than it has ever been, quite contrary to a recent BBC report.
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