Whoa!! Kharkiv Offensive Assessment!!

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From the Institute for the Study of War:

Ukrainian forces have captured an estimated 2,500 square kilometers in Kharkiv Oblast in the Kharkiv area counteroffensive as of September 9. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and Ukrainian Commander-in-Chief Valery Zaluzhnyi stated on September 8 that Ukrainian forces liberated over 1,000 square kilometers between September 1-8 – a day before Ukrainian forces reached the southern approach to Kupyansk and the Oskil River on September 9.[1] Ukrainian forces are likely clearing pockets of disorganized Russian forces caught in the rapid Ukrainian advance to Kupyansk, Izyum, and the Oskil River, given the influx of observed pictures of Russian prisoners of war in the past 48 hours.[2]

Ukrainian forces may collapse Russian positions around Izyum if they sever Russian ground lines of communication (GLOCs) north and south of Izyum. Ukrainian forces continued to advance on Kupyansk and towards Izyum on September 9, and are undertaking measures to isolate the Russian Izyum grouping of forces. If Ukrainians are successful in severing the Russian GLOCs, then they will have an opportunity to create a cauldron around Izyum and collapse a major portion of the Russian positions in northeastern Ukraine.

More Here: https://www.iswresearch.org/

Click on the "here" for an interactive map of their assessment of the Ukraine offensive. Ukrainian gains seen in the blue area of the map.

[Kaleva]

1. Map also shows area where there are reports of UKR partisans fighting

in Russian controlled territory.

[krispos42]

2. Rhode Island is about 3,000 km2, so there's your Freedom Unit n/t

[GoCubsGo]

3. It's a damn shame our "media" is too fixated on something else to report this.

[kentuck]

4. I have a good friend...

...whose son is helping the Ukrainians in Khakiv. He is running some sort of non-profit in that area. Very brave.