Friday, March 29, 2024

Ukraine Retakes Strategic City in Lightning Offensive

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Seventy-nine years ago to the day, the Soviet Red Army found itself engaged in a strategic offensive to retake Eastern from the forces of Nazi Germany. Despite being bloodied and battered, their spearheads pierced the front line of Field Marshal Erich von Manstein's Army Group South. By the end of September 1943, the liberation of Kyiv was at last in sight for the Soviet high command. Today, Russian forces under another despot find themselves fighting and dying on the same soil their grandfathers and great-grandfathers did.

Only the god of war has gone over to the other side.

Within the last week, a reinvigorated Ukraine launched a counteroffensive near , the country's second city, against the depleted Russian invaders. We now know the results thus far — 70 kilometers of territory reclaimed, the key city of liberated and a confirmed Russian withdrawal.

The New York Times has more on what may be a new phase in the war:

's Ministry of Defense — which a day earlier had said that it was moving to reinforce its defensive positions in the region — confirmed on Saturday that it had pulled its forces out of Izium, six months after its forces laid siege to and then seized the city. In a statement, it presented the retreat as a preplanned move, intended to strengthen its efforts in the east where its army has been bogged down for weeks.

Footage from the ground paints a very different picture.

Maintaining control of towns and cities has at times proven tenuous over the course of the war, and it was not immediately clear how secure Ukraine's control over Izium was and what efforts Russia might take to try to win it back.

But the loss of Izium — a strategically important railway hub that Russian forces seized in the spring after a bloody weekslong battle — could mark a turning point in the war, dwarfed only by Russia's humiliating defeat around the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, in the spring.

“Yesterday evening, Russians put a white flag nearby the railway station,” Yevhen, a Ukrainian officer who participated in the liberation of Izium, said in a telephone interview. “There was street fighting all over the night.” He asked to be identified by only his first name out of concerns for his security.

Military experts caution that the fast-moving situation is highly fluid — and may change by the hour.

So, what do you think? Has the tide turned in Ukraine? Or will Putin officially declare war on Ukraine in order to fully mobilize his country? Tell us your thoughts on the biggest conflict in Europe since 1945!

This story is developing. Stay with American Liberty News for the latest updates.

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Patrick Houck
Patrick Houck
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7 COMMENTS

  1. Some good news at least. I wish the Russians many more disasters and defeats. I’m sure Tucker Carlson is probably grieving this morning. He really loves Pootie.

    • Bizarrely, the one single think that Biden has gotten right, Tucker Carlson thinks is a terrible mistake! Why in God’s name would he be against a surrogate war, fought by highly motivated Ukrainians, against Russia?

  2. Russia started this little takeover about 6 months ago. Now they have been defeated and thrown back from a strategic region. When are they going to think that they have lost enough??? That is anybody’s guess/ If they cared about their fellow man, maybe they would call it quits. We can only hope.

    • Russia is guilty of war crimes. But the biggest crime of all was betraying our trust that Russia is a partner in the pursuit of peace, prosperity and cooperation. They are the same old Stalinist Leninist land grabbing big grizzly bear that they’ve always were.

  3. The sad thing is that by the time Ukraine has taken back some territory the Russians have already destroyed most everything there. Ukraine needs to send some rockets over the border and do some damage in their country. Why is NATO and the US providing them with the weapons they could use to punish the Russians but not allow them to use them? Are they that much afraid of Putin?

  4. The same Red Army that was so careless with the lives of its troops that it cleared minefields by marching a poorly performing battalion or two through them. It happily played out Stalin’s grim philosophy: “A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths just a statistic.”

    No journalist seems to have pointed out the wonderful irony that the Soviet Union provided much of the hardware for the North Koreans to invade South Korea to start the Korean War in 1950, as well as arm the Chinese who pitched in to draw out the bloody conflict that ended in stalemate. Now, mighty Russia, the pillar of the old Soviet Union, must call on North Korea for arms to prosecute it’s invasion of the Ukraine. My, how far the Russians have fallen! Further, the Ukrainians are being supplied massive arms shipments by the USA and NATO allies to fight to free their country from an invasion and atrocities typical of Russian war making. The Ukrainians are highly motivated and are doing a fine job. And this time around, no Americans are dying—but Russians are. .

    Without a full war mobilization, Putin cannot hope to achieve a victory in the Ukraine. Trying to force such a mobilization will be the end of Putin. A continuing stalemate and perhaps even the threat of victory by the Ukrainians will also be the end of Putin. Putin needs to be putting his affairs in order.. Hoisted by his own deadly petard.

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