Another day with talks about the Russian big missisle which did little damge physically….
But HAS stirred worries ….
The Ukraine is looking for more troops internally….
Russian has been throwing bodies at the Ukraine and now is looking for reinforcements froim. North Korea….
Ukraine will get no such infusion of bodies in their fight….
They are hoping that they can keep Russia’s Kursk as leverage when the cease-fire talks start…
Russia is using the missile for their leverage….
Everyone IS waiting for Trump’s swearing in for how the US will deal with the conflict…
The main contours of the attack on Thursday morning soon came to light: President Vladimir V. Putin said Russia had test fired an intermediate-range missile from its arsenal designed to deliver nuclear weapons, though without the nuclear warheads aboard.
The Russian strike caused little damage, but it capped a dizzying week of tit-for-tat moves in the war in Ukraine, shifting focus from the ground assaults on the battlefield to a Cold War-style missile brinkmanship. In the previous two days, Ukraine had fired longer-range missiles provided by the U.S. and Britain at military targets inside Russia. Mr. Putin made clear that the Russian missile test was a respon
The long-range missile duels have been waged jointly with the fighting on the frontline, but are having little discernible influence on the ground, suggesting that they serve a political purpose rather than a military one.
Ukraine is hoping for military gains that will provide leverage in any cease-fire negotiations. Moscow is elevating threats of nuclear war before President-elect Donald J. Trump is inaugurated in January. Mr. Trump has expressed skepticism about continuing American military support for Ukraine and said he intends to broker a peace agreement in the war.
In Ukraine, the strike on Dnipro raised anxiety, but when it was over it had changed little in the war: Neither the U.S.-provided missiles Ukraine was recently granted permission to fire into Russia nor the experimental missile Russia sent back are available in sufficient enough quantities to have a significant military effect, analysts say.
But Ukraine is still at a significant disadvantage overall on the battlefield, where its outmanned forces are slowly retreating under intense Russian assaults.
Even with the new permission to strike deeper into Russia, “Ukraine is rapidly approaching a point where, if it does not address the manpower issue, then it will struggle to defend the length of the front,” the Royal United Services Institute, an analytical group affiliated with the British military, wrote of Ukraine’s prospects. Without more soldiers, the analysis said, “the collapse in fighting positions will accelerate.”
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Nov 23, 2024 – ISW Press
The Russian Ministry of Defense (MoD) likely attempted to cover up the recent removal of the acting commander of the Southern Military District (SMD) Colonel General Gennady Anashkin following widespread accusations within the Russian information space that Anashkin’s subordinates submitted false frontline progress reports to superiors.
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